15P/Finlay (Record n° 13213)
Perihelion distance : 1 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 7 °
Orbital period : 6.58 years
Eccentricity : 0.72
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 08 00h41 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " Coma diameter 3.24 ' Tail length 0.15 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.992 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.397 AU Right ascension 334.29346 ° Declination -10.33981 ° 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 2015.01.08
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0015P C2015 01 08.02855 22 17 10.43 -10 20 23.3 13.6 N W96
0015P C2015 01 08.03543 22 17 12.32 -10 20 09.7 13.7 N W96
0015P C2015 01 08.04307 22 17 14.38 -10 19 54.7 13.7 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 -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 20 x 60s Moon elongation 166 ° Air mass 3.20 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 2015 Jan 08 02h37m22s Observation modification date 2015 Jan 08 02h38m58s