C/2011 L3 (McNaught) (Record n° 3704)
Orbital period : 27782.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Jun 26 23h09 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.004 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.298 AU Right ascension 22 11 59.73 h m s Declination -02 40 35.5 ° ' " 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 2011.06.26
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK11L030 C2011 06 26.96480 22 11 59.73 -02 40 35.5 16.1 N C10
CK11L030 C2011 06 26.97571 22 11 58.33 -02 40 07.7 16.2 N C10
CK11L030 C2011 06 26.98637 22 11 56.96 -02 39 40.8 16.1 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 69 ° Air mass 4.35 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 Jun 28 13h49m32s Observation modification date 2011 Jun 28 14h08m20s