164P/Christensen (Record n° 6251)
Orbital period : 6.98 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 19 21h33 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.9 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.983 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.130 AU Right ascension 10 32 48.04 h m s Declination +32 29 33.8 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.300-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.03.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0164P C2012 03 19.89812 10 32 48.04 +32 29 33.8 17.8 N C10
0164P C2012 03 19.90858 10 32 47.58 +32 29 33.6 17.9 N C10
0164P C2012 03 19.91910 10 32 47.16 +32 29 33.1 17.9 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 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 F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 153 ° Air mass 1.05 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Mar 20 09h01m32s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 20 14h02m26s