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3200 Phaethon

Orbital period : 1.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Nov 21 22h03 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16.6
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.175 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.217 AU
Right ascension03 22 13.84 h m s
Declination+38 04 08.7 ° ' "
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 2011.11.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
03200         C2011 11 21.91856 03 22 13.84 +38 04 08.7          16.5 R      C10
03200         C2011 11 21.93220 03 22 11.24 +38 03 58.6          16.6 R      C10
03200         C2011 11 21.94744 03 22 08.39 +38 03 47.2          16.6 R      C10
03200         C2011 11 21.96252 03 22 05.54 +38 03 35.8          16.7 R      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-25 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3600 s
Exposure details30 X 120s
Moon elongation134 °
Air mass1.03
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 Dec 10 20h56m30s
Observation modification date2011 Dec 10 21h09m20s

(Record n° 5391)

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