P/2012 K3 (Gibbs) (Record n° 6658)
Orbital period : 6.91 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 May 26 23h59 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.293 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.324 AU Right ascension 17 13 24.74 h m s Declination -04 11 43.7 ° ' " 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/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.05.26 and 27
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
PK12K030 KC2012 05 26.99984 17 13 24.74 -04 11 43.7 18.0 N C10
PK12K030 KC2012 05 27.01218 17 13 24.25 -04 11 44.9 18.2 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera ST7-XMEd Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9 x 4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765 x 510 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60a Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2400 s Exposure details 20 X 120s Seeing 4 Moon elongation 124 ° Air mass 1.68 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 May 27 11h04m28s Observation modification date 2012 May 28 15h46m31s