15P/Finlay (Record n° 13082)
Perihelion distance : 1 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 7 °
Orbital period : 6.58 years
Eccentricity : 0.72
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Dec 18 01h40 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 12.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 10.2 " Coma diameter 2 ' Tail length 0.09 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.985 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.467 AU Right ascension 310.57875 ° Declination -20.17433 ° 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 2014.12.18
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0015P C2014 12 18.06967 20 42 18.90 -20 10 27.6 12.5 N W96
0015P C2014 12 18.07218 20 42 19.48 -20 10 23.4 12.6 N W96
0015P C2014 12 18.07496 20 42 20.26 -20 10 18.4 12.6 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 -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 5 x 20s Moon elongation 93 ° Air mass 9.21 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.02 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Dec 18 16h41m25s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 18 16h42m25s