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253P/PANSTARRS

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 deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.095 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.104 AU
Right ascension23 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 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 time1800 s
Exposure details15 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation144 °
Air mass1.89
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 Sep 24 15h05m57s
Observation modification date2011 Sep 26 13h29m01s

(Record n° 4671)

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