P/2012 O3 (McNaught) (Record n° 7497)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.642 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.720 AU Right ascension 21 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 type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 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 F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2160 s Exposure details 18 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 92 ° Air mass 2.12 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Sep 21 10h43m55s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 21 10h50m07s