37P/Forbes (Record n° 7482)
Orbital period : 6.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 16 02h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 19.8 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.890 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.201 AU Right ascension 02 48 39.25 h m s Declination +28 14 34.6 ° ' " 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 2012.09.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0037P KC2012 09 16.11159 02 48 39.25 +28 14 34.6 19.8 N C10
0037P KC2012 09 16.12925 02 48 38.92 +28 14 37.8 19.8 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 2400 s Exposure details 20 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 126 ° Air mass 1.07 Observatory MPC code C10 Location 77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing PRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP Observation submission date 2012 Sep 17 15h50m49s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 17 16h01m48s