253P/PANSTARRS (Record n° 4584)
Orbital period : 6.45 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Sep 20 22h24 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.3 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.100 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.102 AU Right ascension 23 22 24.25 h m s Declination -08 28 40.9 ° ' " 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 2011.09.20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
PK11R020 KC2011 09 20.93336 23 22 24.25 -08 28 40.9 17.1 N C10
PK11R020 KC2011 09 20.93703 23 22 24.12 -08 28 42.1 17.5 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 600 s Exposure details 5 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 104 ° Air mass 1.85 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 FC GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Sep 21 11h35m18s Observation modification date 2011 Sep 21 11h46m19s