P/2015 Q2 (Pimentel) (Record n° 14356)
Orbital period : 19.93 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Sep 01 07h18 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.8 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.823 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.110 AU Right ascension 02 35 10.85 h m s Declination -41 02 43.4 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.09.01
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
PK15Q020 KC2015 09 01.30432 02 35 10.85 -41 02 43.4 17.9 R W96
PK15Q020 KC2015 09 01.31091 02 35 09.33 -41 03 19.9 17.6 R W96
PK15Q020 KC2015 09 01.32137 02 35 06.79 -41 04 15.4 17.8 R W96
PK15Q020 KC2015 09 01.32799 02 35 05.26 -41 04 53.3 17.8 R W96
PK15Q020 KC2015 09 01.33800 02 35 02.92 -41 05 48.1 17.9 R W96
PK15Q020 KC2015 09 01.34460 02 35 01.27 -41 06 23.8 18.0 R 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 PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 60 x 15s Moon elongation 51 ° Air mass 1.09 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 Sep 02 03h07m47s Observation modification date 2015 Sep 02 08h31m09s