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3200 Phaethon

Orbital period : 1.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2012 Sep 29 22h56 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.6
m2 standard deviation0.3
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.104 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.426 AU
Right ascension03 38 55.07 h m s
Declination+45 07 21.1 ° ' "
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 2012.09.29
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
03200        KC2012 09 29.95541 03 38 55.07 +45 07 21.1          17.5 R      C10
03200        KC2012 09 29.97205 03 38 53.02 +45 07 24.7          17.4 R      C10
03200        KC2012 09 29.99474 03 38 50.13 +45 07 28.9          18.0 R      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)Rc (UBVRI)
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3600 s
Exposure details30 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation59 °
Air mass1.29
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 LOG FC GIMP
Observation submission date2012 Sep 30 12h01m37s
Observation modification date2012 Sep 30 12h03m51s

(Record n° 7681)

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