240P/NEAT (Record n° 2515)
Orbital period : 7.60 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 21 20h40 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.6 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.603 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.629 AU Right ascension 07 28 34.61 h m s Declination +41 38 40.8 ° ' " 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 2011.04.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0240P C2011 04 21.86077 07 28 34.61 +41 38 40.8 15.5 N C10
0240P C2011 04 21.86668 07 28 35.22 +41 38 38.9 15.6 N C10
0240P C2011 04 21.87418 07 28 35.99 +41 38 36.7 15.6 N C10
0240P C2011 04 21.88162 07 28 36.77 +41 38 34.5 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 -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 149 ° Air mass 1.22 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 DDP Observation submission date 2011 Apr 22 02h51m01s Observation modification date 2011 Apr 22 13h13m24s