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C/2015 F3 (SWAN)

Orbital period : 2402.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Apr 23 20h17 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)14.4
Aperture radius used for m10.25 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.5
Aperture radius used for m25.53 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.163 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.065 AU
Right ascension01 02 54.53 h m s
Declination+81 21 13.4 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.04.23 23:22:35
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK15F030 KC2015 04 23.84482 01 02 54.53 +81 21 13.4          18.5 N      A77
    CK15F030 KC2015 04 23.84887 01 02 57.48 +81 21 34.3          14.4 T      A77
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)None
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details10x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.79 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Apr 23 23h28m08s
Observation modification date2015 Apr 23 23h32m56s

(Record n° 13752)

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