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37P/Forbes

Orbital period : 6.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Sep 21 02h35 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.919 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.176 AU
Right ascension02 46 18.95 h m s
Declination+28 23 22.2 ° ' "
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 2012.09.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0037P         C2012 09 21.10731 02 46 18.95 +28 23 22.2          16.8 N      C10
0037P         C2012 09 21.13088 02 46 18.20 +28 23 23.5          16.8 N      C10
0037P         C2012 09 21.14274 02 46 17.77 +28 23 24.4          17.0 N      C10
0037P         C2012 09 21.15328 02 46 17.45 +28 23 25.3          17.0 N      C10
0037P         C2012 09 21.17212 02 46 16.79 +28 23 26.9          17.1 N      C10
0037P         C2012 09 21.18726 02 46 16.28 +28 23 28.0          17.0 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2160 s
Exposure details18 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation157 °
Air mass1.10
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Remarks or commentsCirrus +++
Observation submission date2012 Sep 21 10h47m29s
Observation modification date2012 Sep 21 10h56m22s

(Record n° 7502)

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