15P/Finlay (Record n° 13281)
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 19 00h27 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.9 " Coma diameter 4.30 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.032 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.395 AU Right ascension 346.57129 ° Declination -4.13819 ° 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 2015.01.19
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0015P C2015 01 19.01904 23 06 17.11 -04 08 17.5 13.0 N W96
0015P C2015 01 19.03113 23 06 20.32 -04 07 52.8 13.1 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 30 x 30s Moon elongation 68 ° Air mass 2.89 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 19 04h05m42s Observation modification date 2015 Jan 19 15h03m47s