4P/Faye (Record n° 12993)
Perihelion distance : 1.63 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 8 °
Orbital period : 7.5 years
Eccentricity : 0.58
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Nov 26 07h51 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.7 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.371 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.094 AU Right ascension 148.46125 ° Declination +2.25189 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.11.26
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0004P C2014 11 26.32733 09 53 50.70 +02 15 06.8 16.7 N W96
0004P C2014 11 26.33422 09 53 50.98 +02 15 03.8 16.7 N W96
0004P C2014 11 26.34186 09 53 51.23 +02 15 01.0 16.7 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 20 x 60s Moon elongation 143 ° Air mass 1.33 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Nov 26 10h07m57s Observation modification date 2014 Nov 26 10h09m14s