C/2015 C2 (SWAN) (Record n° 13466)
Orbital period : 6368.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 26 00h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 10.3 " Coma diameter 1.30 ' Tail length 0.11 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.724 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.325 AU Right ascension 00 42 59.79 h m s Declination -18 11 20.2 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.02.19
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.00106 00 42 59.79 -18 11 20.2 13.4 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.00356 00 43 00.09 -18 11 05.4 13.2 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.00634 00 43 00.44 -18 10 49.2 13.3 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.00911 00 43 00.74 -18 10 33.2 13.3 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.01189 00 43 01.10 -18 10 16.9 13.3 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.01467 00 43 01.48 -18 10 00.8 13.3 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 26.01717 00 43 01.77 -18 09 46.3 13.3 R 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 3x3 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide No Exposure details 59 x 20s Air mass 3.05 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 28 02h56m58s Observation modification date 2015 Mar 15 23h17m43s