15P/Finlay (Record n° 13045)
Orbital period : 6.56 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Dec 12 00h14 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Coma diameter 2.20 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.001 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.498 AU Right ascension 20 15 15.39 h m s Declination -22 17 27.8 ° ' " 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 2014.12.12
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0015P C2014 12 12.01001 20 15 15.39 -22 17 27.8 15.1 N W96
0015P C2014 12 12.01793 20 15 17.52 -22 17 18.5 15.1 N W96
0015P C2014 12 12.02627 20 15 19.74 -22 17 09.1 15.1 N W96
0015P C2014 12 12.03460 20 15 21.88 -22 16 59.5 15.1 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 60 x 30s Moon elongation 157 ° Air mass 2.41 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Dec 12 02h40m53s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 12 04h12m33s