260P/McNaught (Record n° 7478)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 16 01h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.2 Aperture radius used for m2 14.25 " r (dist/Sun) 1.498 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.608 AU Right ascension 02 02 17.60 h m s Declination +25 12 13.3 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.090-m f/5.3 Maksutov-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.09.15 and 16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0260P C2012 09 16.06987 02 02 17.60 +25 12 13.3 13.2 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.08036 02 02 17.71 +25 12 34.1 13.2 N C10
0260P C2012 09 16.09434 02 02 17.88 +25 13 01.8 13.2 N C10
Instrument type Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 90 mm Instrument focale length 477 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.3 Camera ATICK 314L+ Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.45 x 6.45 mm2 Sensor pixels number 1360 x 1024 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2400 s Exposure details 8 X 300s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 136 ° Air mass 1.10 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog USNO-B1.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.85 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Sep 17 15h47m28s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 17 16h00m31s