15P/Finlay (Record n° 13139)
Orbital period : 6.56 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Dec 23 00h28 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14 Aperture radius used for m2 6.9 " r (dist/Sun) 0.978 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.444 AU Right ascension 21 04 39.10 h m s Declination -18 10 55.9 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.12.23
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0015P C2014 12 23.01954 21 04 39.10 -18 10 55.9 14.0 N W96
0015P C2014 12 23.02787 21 04 41.31 -18 10 43.4 14.0 N W96
0015P C2014 12 23.03829 21 04 44.18 -18 10 27.4 14.0 N W96
0015P C2014 12 23.04871 21 04 47.04 -18 10 11.6 14.1 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 45 x 30s Moon elongation 31 ° Air mass 2.58 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Dec 23 08h52m01s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 23 10h19m46s