C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski) (Record n° 7479)
Orbital period : 132.60 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 15 22h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 19 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 9.532 AU d (dist/Earth) 8.625 AU Right ascension 22 08 35.02 h m s Declination +14 20 15.5 ° ' " 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 2012.09.15
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
CK12Q010 KC2012 09 15.91832 22 08 35.02 +14 20 15.5 18.8 N C10
CK12Q010 KC2012 09 15.93352 22 08 34.76 +14 20 11.4 19.2 N C10
CK12Q010 KC2012 09 15.94877 22 08 34.57 +14 20 07.8 19.1 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3000 s Exposure details 25 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 158 ° Air mass 1.21 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 Sep 17 15h48m45s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 17 15h54m20s