C/2015 X2 (Catalina) (Record n° 14827)
Orbital period : 62.80 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Dec 04 23h43 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 19.5 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 9.7 " r (dist/Sun) 1.941 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.519 AU Right ascension 11 33 54.24 h m s Declination +51 16 07.7 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.12.04 and 05
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15X020 KC2015 12 04.98850 11 33 54.24 +51 16 07.7 19.5 R C10
CK15X020 KC2015 12 05.01037 11 34 00.28 +51 16 58.3 19.4 R C10
CK15X020 KC2015 12 05.03683 11 34 07.20 +51 17 59.2 19.6 R C10
CK15X020 KC2015 12 05.05679 11 34 12.62 +51 18 44.9 19.3 R C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Filter(s) None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Axis Instruments Autoguide Yes Exposure details 120 x 40s Moon elongation 52 ° Air mass 2.07 Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne (77) Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Dec 06 10h51m12s Observation modification date 2015 Dec 06 10h56m06s