240P/NEAT (Record n° 2509)
Orbital period : 7.60 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 17 20h12 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.9 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " Coma diameter 0.30 ' r (dist/Sun) 2.587 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.568 AU Right ascension 07 21 40.11 h m s Declination +41 58 01.4 ° ' " 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 2011.04.17
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0240P C2011 04 17.84196 07 21 40.11 +41 58 01.4 15.8 N C10
0240P C2011 04 17.84794 07 21 40.70 +41 57 59.9 15.8 N C10
0240P C2011 04 17.85534 07 21 41.46 +41 57 57.7 15.8 N C10
0240P C2011 04 17.86284 07 21 42.22 +41 57 55.5 15.9 N C10
0240P C2011 04 17.87031 07 21 42.96 +41 57 53.4 16.0 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 2400 s Exposure details 20 x 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 99 ° Air mass 1.14 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRIDMV8 APE Observation submission date 2011 Apr 17 23h55m24s Observation modification date 2011 Apr 17 23h58m39s