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C/2012 X2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 93.40 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2014 Feb 06 03h52 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.4
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m25.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 5.206 AU
d (dist/Earth) 4.487 AU
Right ascension10 06 47.00 h m s
Declination-29 58 46.1 ° ' "
MPC report
COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.02.06 
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
    CK12X020 KC2014 02 06.16093 10 06 47.00 -29 58 46.1          18.6 N      W96
    CK12X020 KC2014 02 06.17989 10 06 46.41 -29 58 48.7          18.1 N      W96
    CK12X020 KC2014 02 06.19815 10 06 45.87 -29 58 51.5          18.4 N      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length3200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter8
CameraQHY9
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number3326 x 2504
Sensor temperature-30 °C
Binning2x2
MountPARAMOUNT
AutoguideYes
Exposure details26 X 120s
Moon elongation118 °
Air mass1.09
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationChili
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.69 "/pix
Observation submission date2014 Feb 06 12h26m35s
Observation modification date2014 Feb 06 18h34m34s

(Record n° 11050)

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