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C/2011 L3 (McNaught)

Orbital period : 27782.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Aug 30 20h08 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.1
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.939 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.415 AU
Right ascension18 09 54.09 h m s
Declination+33 48 19.5 ° ' "
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 2011.08.30
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
    CK11L030  C2011 08 30.83899 18 09 54.09 +33 48 19.5          16.9 N      C10
    CK11L030  C2011 08 30.84674 18 09 52.95 +33 48 21.4          17.1 N      C10
    CK11L030  C2011 08 30.85616 18 09 51.67 +33 48 22.3          17.2 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 time1080 s
Exposure details9 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation96 °
Air mass1.04
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Aug 31 10h44m50s
Observation modification date2011 Aug 31 18h16m14s

(Record n° 4127)

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