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P/2012 O3 (McNaught)

Orbital period : 9.78 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Sep 19 20h13 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.1
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.642 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.720 AU
Right ascension21 26 48.21 h m s
Declination-11 39 30.0 ° ' "
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 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.09.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
    PK12O030  C2012 09 19.84222 21 26 48.21 -11 39 30.0          18.0 N      C10
    PK12O030  C2012 09 19.84825 21 26 48.29 -11 39 20.8          18.2 N      C10
    PK12O030  C2012 09 19.85581 21 26 48.41 -11 39 11.2          17.9 N      C10
    PK12O030  C2012 09 19.86192 21 26 48.47 -11 39 01.5          18.2 N      C10
    PK12O030  C2012 09 19.86806 21 26 48.59 -11 38 52.6          18.3 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2160 s
Exposure details18 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation92 °
Air mass2.12
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Sep 21 10h43m55s
Observation modification date2012 Sep 21 10h50m07s

(Record n° 7497)

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