C/2015 C2 (SWAN) (Record n° 13467)
Orbital period : 6368.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 27 00h05 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.7 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 10.3 " r (dist/Sun) 0.720 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.335 AU Right ascension 00 44 59.44 h m s Declination -16 34 42.9 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.02.27
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15C020 C2015 02 27.00332 00 44 59.44 -16 34 42.9 13.7 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 27.00998 00 45 00.23 -16 34 04.6 13.7 R W96
CK15C020 C2015 02 27.02259 00 45 01.87 -16 32 53.0 13.8 R 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 3x3 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide No Exposure details 14 x 20s Moon elongation 78 ° Air mass 3.45 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 28 03h00m31s Observation modification date 2015 Mar 15 23h24m00s