Orbital period : 2470.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 22 08h09 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)
| Nuclear magnitude (m2) | 17.2 | m2 standard deviation | 0.2 | Aperture radius used for m2 | 5.5 " | Coma diameter | 0.3 ' | r (dist/Sun) | 3.454 AU | d (dist/Earth) | 3.887 AU | Right ascension | 00 24 31.94 h m s | Declination | -06 12 24.8 ° ' " | MPC report | COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
COM Cometary obvious appearance without filter on single 60s exposures,
COM Coma : 20"x20" (on 50x60s stacked exposures)
COM Sampling : 1.38"/pixel,
COM Aperture radius for mag measures : 5.5"
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.05.22 11:18:02
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
M504DRx C2015 05 22.33962 00 24 31.94 -06 12 24.8 17.0 R W96
M504DRx C2015 05 22.35854 00 24 32.90 -06 12 15.4 17.1 R W96
M504DRx C2015 05 22.37455 00 24 33.73 -06 12 05.7 17.5 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 | QHY9 | Sensor | CCD | Sensor temperature | -35 °C | Binning | 4x4 | Mount | Paramount | Exposure details | 50x1mn | Observatory MPC code | W96 | Location | San Pedro de Atacama, Chile | Reference stars catalog | UCAC-4 | Used softwares | ASTROMETRICA | Resulting picture sampling (scale) | 1.38 "/pix | Image processing | Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (levels, crop) | Observation submission date | 2015 May 22 13h02m34s | Observation modification date | 2015 May 23 22h40m20s |
(Record n° 13907)