240P/NEAT (Record n° 2511)
Orbital period : 7.60 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 19 20h09 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.6 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " Coma diameter 0.40 ' Tail length 0.01 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 104.5 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.595 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.598 AU Right ascension 07 25 05.31 h m s Declination +41 48 32.9 ° ' " 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 2011.04.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0240P C2011 04 19.83962 07 25 05.31 +41 48 32.9 15.6 N C10
0240P C2011 04 19.84550 07 25 05.91 +41 48 31.1 15.6 N C10
0240P C2011 04 19.85309 07 25 06.69 +41 48 29.0 15.5 N C10
0240P C2011 04 19.86080 07 25 07.49 +41 48 26.6 15.6 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 2 Moon elongation 126 ° Air mass 1.15 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 APE Vignette en FC Observation submission date 2011 Apr 20 00h34m37s Observation modification date 2011 Apr 20 00h40m12s