253P/PANSTARRS (Record n° 4671)
Orbital period : 6.45 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Sep 23 23h28 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.095 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.104 AU Right ascension 23 20 49.54 h m s Declination -08 48 40.7 ° ' " 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 2011.09.23 and 24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
PK11R020 C2011 09 23.97766 23 20 49.54 -08 48 40.7 17.0 N C10
PK11R020 C2011 09 23.98940 23 20 49.18 -08 48 44.9 16.9 N C10
PK11R020 C2011 09 24.00035 23 20 48.84 -08 48 49.3 17.2 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 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 144 ° Air mass 1.89 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 DDP GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Sep 24 15h05m57s Observation modification date 2011 Sep 26 13h29m01s