C/2009 F2 (McNaught) (Record n° 2102)
Orbital period : 6730.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Mar 07 02h15 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.6 m2 standard deviation 0.4 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.748 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.300 AU Right ascension 15 35 20.11 h m s Declination -01 35 01.8 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.03.07
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK09F020 C2011 03 07.09385 15 35 20.11 -01 35 01.8 18.1 N C10
CK09F020 C2011 03 07.10448 15 35 20.09 -01 34 58.6 18.8 N C10
CK09F020 C2011 03 07.11824 15 35 20.11 -01 34 52.6 18.9 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15X120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 133 ° Air mass 1.85 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.06 "/pix Image processing PRISMV7 APE DDP Observation submission date 2011 Mar 07 09h45m11s Observation modification date 2011 Mar 08 00h41m53s