240P/NEAT (Record n° 2701)
Orbital period : 7.60 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Apr 30 20h46 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.2 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 2.639 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.766 AU Right ascension 07 44 24.89 h m s Declination +40 51 22.2 ° ' " 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 2011.04.30
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0240P C2011 04 30.86546 07 44 24.89 +40 51 22.2 16.1 N C10
0240P C2011 04 30.87273 07 44 25.70 +40 51 19.9 16.1 N C10
0240P C2011 04 30.88029 07 44 26.48 +40 51 17.3 16.2 N C10
0240P C2011 04 30.88772 07 44 27.26 +40 51 14.6 16.2 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 4 Moon elongation 95 ° Air mass 1.31 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.04 "/pix Image processing PRSIMV8 APE Observation submission date 2011 May 01 06h43m06s Observation modification date 2011 May 02 13h07m43s