253P/PANSTARRS (Record n° 4959)
Orbital period : 6.45 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Oct 19 20h45 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.058 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.193 AU Right ascension 23 14 02.58 h m s Declination -10 28 02.4 ° ' " 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 2011.10.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
PK11R020 KC2011 10 19.86440 23 14 02.58 -10 28 02.4 17.4 N C10
PK11R020 KC2011 10 19.88143 23 14 02.62 -10 28 03.2 17.3 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 -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PERL-VIXEN Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2400 s Exposure details 22 x 120s Seeing 2 Moon elongation 127 ° Air mass 1.96 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 FC GIMP Observation submission date 2011 Oct 20 12h04m46s Observation modification date 2011 Oct 27 21h34m24s