C/2011 L3 (McNaught) (Record n° 3973)
Orbital period : 27782.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Jul 12 00h44 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " Tail position angle
(PA) 225 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.958 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.094 AU Right ascension 21 28 39.02 h m s Declination +09 10 46.6 ° ' " MPC report COD B51
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.07.13 22:58:31
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
CK11L030 C2011 07 12.03090 21 28 39.02 +09 10 46.6 16.1 N B51
CK11L030 C2011 07 12.04937 21 28 34.96 +09 11 43.7 16.1 N B51
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter(s) None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Binning 1x1 Exposure total time 600 s Air mass 1.22 Observatory MPC code B51 Location 06 Vallauris Reference stars catalog USNO-A2.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2011 Jul 13 23h16m35s Observation modification date 2011 Jul 18 16h20m37s