240P/NEAT (Record n° 2489)
Orbital period : 7.60 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 09 23h05 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.555 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.445 AU Right ascension 07 08 30.46 h m s Declination +42 32 46.1 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.04.09
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0240P C2011 04 09.96160 07 08 30.46 +42 32 46.1 16.2 N C10
0240P C2011 04 09.96751 07 08 31.03 +42 32 44.7 16.3 N C10
0240P C2011 04 09.97497 07 08 31.75 +42 32 42.7 16.2 N C10
0240P C2011 04 09.98259 07 08 32.50 +42 32 40.6 16.3 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.6 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 PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 24 ° Air mass 1.68 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.06 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 APE DDP FC Observation submission date 2011 Apr 10 07h26m38s Observation modification date 2011 Apr 10 09h42m35s