218P/LINEAR (Record n° 13941)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 29 05h47 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.5 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.253 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.503 AU Right ascension 21 23 04.24 h m s Declination -08 11 36.5 ° ' " 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 2015.05.29
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0218P C2015 05 29.24127 21 23 04.24 -08 11 36.5 16.6 N W96
0218P C2015 05 29.25707 21 23 05.78 -08 11 29.1 16.4 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount P Autoguide Yes Exposure details 20 x 60s Air mass 1.76 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 May 29 09h01m37s Observation modification date 2015 May 29 09h02m13s