37P/Forbes (Record n° 7492)
Orbital period : 6.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 20 01h38 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.8 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.913 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.181 AU Right ascension 02 46 51.44 h m s Declination +28 21 51.2 ° ' " 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 2012.09.20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0037P C2012 09 20.06794 02 46 51.44 +28 21 51.2 16.7 N C10
0037P C2012 09 20.07387 02 46 51.25 +28 21 51.7 16.8 N C10
0037P C2012 09 20.08132 02 46 51.02 +28 21 52.4 16.6 N C10
0037P C2012 09 20.08883 02 46 50.78 +28 21 53.0 16.9 N C10
0037P C2012 09 20.09622 02 46 50.56 +28 21 53.6 16.8 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 168 ° Air mass 1.08 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 15h55m43s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 20 15h58m31s