15P/Finlay (Record n° 11977)
Perihelion distance : 1 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 7 °
Orbital period : 6.58 years
Eccentricity : 0.72
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Jun 21 23h21 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 20.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 12.9 " r (dist/Sun) 2.483 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.626 AU Right ascension 223.82263 ° Declination -25.11817 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.06.21 and 22
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0015P KC2014 06 21.97326 14 55 17.43 -25 07 05.4 20.9 N W96
0015P KC2014 06 21.99826 14 55 16.13 -25 06 59.9 20.7 N W96
0015P KC2014 06 22.02413 14 55 14.61 -25 06 52.4 20.9 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 45 x 120s Moon elongation 157 ° Air mass 1.18 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Jun 23 06h33m23s Observation modification date 2014 Jun 23 06h35m08s