260P/McNaught (Record n° 7500)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Sep 19 23h09 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.8 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.499 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.600 AU Right ascension 02 03 00.43 h m s Declination +27 20 19.9 ° ' " 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 2012.09.19 and 20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 09 19.96426 02 03 00.43 +27 20 19.9 13.8 N C10
0260P C2012 09 19.97027 02 03 00.44 +27 20 31.7 13.8 N C10
0260P C2012 09 19.97757 02 03 00.46 +27 20 46.1 13.8 N C10
0260P C2012 09 19.98512 02 03 00.47 +27 21 00.9 13.8 N C10
0260P C2012 09 19.99242 02 03 00.48 +27 21 15.2 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 09 20.00009 02 03 00.49 +27 21 30.3 13.8 N C10
0260P C2012 09 20.00900 02 03 00.50 +27 21 47.7 13.8 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 3600 s Exposure details 30 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 163 ° Air mass 1.27 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 21 10h45m41s Observation modification date 2012 Sep 21 10h53m53s