260P/McNaught (Record n° 7489)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 18 01h19 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.9 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.498 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.603 AU Right ascension 02 02 44.63 h m s Declination +26 17 54.3 ° ' " MPC report COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.09.18
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 09 18.05509 02 02 44.63 +26 17 54.3 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 18.06297 02 02 44.67 +26 18 09.8 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 18.07372 02 02 44.74 +26 18 31.1 13.9 N C10
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) Rc (UBVRI) 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 1440 s Exposure details 12 x 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 162 ° Air mass 1.18 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 20 02h48m31s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 20 02h59m38s