C/2009 F2 (McNaught) (Record n° 2360)
Orbital period : 6730.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 02 01h40 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 6.837 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.069 AU Right ascension 15 32 37.32 h m s Declination +01 25 31.6 ° ' " 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 2011.04.02
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK09F020 C2011 04 02.06935 15 32 37.32 +01 25 31.6 18.2 N C10
CK09F020 C2011 04 02.08014 15 32 37.25 +01 25 37.7 18.3 N C10
CK09F020 C2011 04 02.09137 15 32 37.03 +01 25 42.2 18.4 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15X120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 120 ° Air mass 1.52 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.06 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 APE DDP Observation submission date 2011 Apr 02 07h12m50s Observation modification date 2011 Apr 05 09h23m50s