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C/2011 L3 (McNaught)

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 deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.927 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.066 AU
Right ascension19 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 typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1200 s
Exposure details10 X 120s
Seeing2
Moon elongation132 °
Air mass1.08
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Aug 02 16h16m00s
Observation modification date2011 Aug 03 09h04m43s

(Record n° 4025)

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