15P/Finlay (Record n° 13085)
Orbital period : 6.56 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Dec 19 00h25 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.9 " Coma diameter 2.43 ' Tail length 0.09 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.983 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.463 AU Right ascension 20 46 34.59 h m s Declination -19 48 40.0 ° ' " 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 2014.12.19
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0015P C2014 12 19.01704 20 46 34.59 -19 48 40.0 13.3 N W96
0015P C2014 12 19.02496 20 46 36.73 -19 48 28.7 13.3 N W96
0015P C2014 12 19.03330 20 46 38.90 -19 48 17.3 13.4 N W96
0015P C2014 12 19.04163 20 46 41.19 -19 48 05.4 13.4 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 81 ° Air mass 2.62 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 19 09h55m04s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 19 13h40m38s