164P/Christensen (Record n° 6270)
Orbital period : 6.98 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Mar 23 21h50 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 3.006 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.180 AU Right ascension 10 30 15.76 h m s Declination +32 25 57.7 ° ' " 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 2012.03.23
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0164P C2012 03 23.90953 10 30 15.76 +32 25 57.7 18.1 N C10
0164P C2012 03 23.92024 10 30 15.34 +32 25 56.7 18.0 N C10
0164P C2012 03 23.93098 10 30 14.98 +32 25 55.8 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 124 ° Air mass 1.04 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 FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Mar 24 09h40m22s Observation modification date 2012 Mar 24 19h19m14s