260P/McNaught (Record n° 7741)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Oct 05 23h33 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.9 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.517 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.584 AU Right ascension 01 58 37.03 h m s Declination +35 12 21.6 ° ' " 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 2012.10.05
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 10 05.98139 01 58 37.03 +35 12 21.6 13.8 N C10
0260P C2012 10 05.98900 01 58 36.70 +35 12 33.3 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 10 05.99500 01 58 36.45 +35 12 42.5 13.9 N C10
0260P C2012 10 05.99653 01 58 36.39 +35 12 44.8 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 1800 s Exposure details 15 X 120s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 44 ° Air mass 1.06 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 Oct 07 14h13m29s Observation modification date 2012 Oct 08 14h58m00s