260P/McNaught (Record n° 7312)
Perihelion distance : 1.42 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 15 °
Orbital period : 6.9 years
Eccentricity : 0.61
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Aug 27 02h22 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 1.508 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.691 AU Right ascension 27.12713 ° Declination +14.08514 ° MPC report COD B51
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.08.28 10:04:39
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
0260P C2012 08 27.09854 01 48 30.51 +14 05 06.5 14.9 N B51
0260P C2012 08 27.10082 01 48 30.66 +14 05 10.9 14.8 N B51
0260P C2012 08 27.10301 01 48 30.79 +14 05 15.2 14.9 N B51
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Binning 1x1 Exposure total time 300 s Air mass 1.15 Observatory MPC code B51 Location 06 Vallauris Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-A2.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2012 Aug 28 10h08m19s Observation modification date 2012 Aug 28 10h14m09s