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C/2011 S2 (Kowalski)

Orbital period : 66.70 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Oct 03 03h05 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16.3
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.173 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.480 AU
Right ascension09 23 04.98 h m s
Declination+18 48 16.6 ° ' "
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 2011.10.03
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
    CK11S020  C2011 10 03.12846 09 23 04.98 +18 48 16.6          16.3 N      C10
    CK11S020  C2011 10 03.13433 09 23 06.45 +18 48 04.5          16.4 N      C10
    CK11S020  C2011 10 03.14220 09 23 08.36 +18 47 48.1          16.3 N      C10
    CK11S020  C2011 10 03.14978 09 23 10.13 +18 47 32.8          16.3 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
Seeing2
Moon elongation129 °
Air mass2.81
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 Oct 03 14h30m34s
Observation modification date2011 Oct 04 10h11m58s

(Record n° 4704)

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