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P/2012 K3 (Gibbs)

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 deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.293 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.324 AU
Right ascension17 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 typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60a
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2400 s
Exposure details20 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation124 °
Air mass1.68
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 May 27 11h04m28s
Observation modification date2012 May 28 15h46m31s

(Record n° 6658)

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