C/2006 S3 (LONEOS) (Record n° 6485)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 May 14 00h45 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.3 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 5.135 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.217 AU Right ascension 17 15 38.54 h m s Declination -12 56 11.3 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.05.14
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
CK06S030 C2012 05 14.03116 17 15 38.54 -12 56 11.3 14.3 N C10
CK06S030 C2012 05 14.04211 17 15 37.61 -12 56 10.5 14.3 N C10
CK06S030 C2012 05 14.05248 17 15 36.73 -12 56 09.8 14.3 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 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 F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 77 ° Air mass 2.16 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 May 14 13h11m59s Observation modification date 2012 May 15 11h57m34s