C/2011 L3 (McNaught) (Record n° 4025)
Orbital period : 27782.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Aug 01 23h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.5 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.927 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.066 AU Right ascension 19 57 06.78 h m s Declination +25 35 30.9 ° ' " 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 2011.08.01
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
CK11L030 C2011 08 01.95953 19 57 06.78 +25 35 30.9 15.2 N C10
CK11L030 C2011 08 01.96852 19 57 04.15 +25 35 52.4 15.7 N C10
CK11L030 C2011 08 01.98201 19 57 00.29 +25 36 20.9 15.7 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 1200 s Exposure details 10 X 120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 132 ° Air mass 1.08 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 GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Aug 02 16h16m00s Observation modification date 2011 Aug 03 09h04m43s