260P/McNaught (Record n° 7891)
Orbital period : 6.90 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2012 Nov 16 20h35 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 9 " r (dist/Sun) 1.648 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.733 AU Right ascension 01 30 17.66 h m s Declination +42 39 22.0 ° ' " MPC report COD B83
CON Thierry NOEL [thierrynoel1@laposte.net]
OBS T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.20-m f/5.0 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2012.11.16 22:51:02
AC2 thierrynoel1@laposte.net
NET UCAC-3
0260P C2012 11 16.85763 01 30 17.66 +42 39 22.0 14.9 N B83
0260P C2012 11 16.87874 01 30 17.47 +42 39 20.1 15.1 N B83
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1000 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.0 Camera SBIG ST7-XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Mount Atlas-EQG Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2100 s Exposure details 7x5mn Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Observatory MPC code B83 Location Gi?res 38610 France Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.85 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, add) + Iris (levels, ddp, crop) Observation submission date 2012 Nov 16 23h01m40s Observation modification date 2012 Nov 16 23h10m06s