162P/Siding Spring (Record n° 14205)
Perihelion distance : 1.29 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 28 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.58
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jul 30 09h33 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.256 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.695 AU Right ascension 78.01863 ° Declination +27.41558 ° 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 2015.07.30
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0162P KC2015 07 30.39822 05 12 04.47 +27 24 56.1 16.7 N W96
0162P KC2015 07 30.40943 05 12 06.77 +27 25 11.9 17.0 N W96
0162P KC2015 07 30.42217 05 12 09.50 +27 25 29.0 16.6 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 -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 52 x 40s Moon elongation 146 ° Air mass 3.50 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Jul 30 12h31m43s Observation modification date 2015 Jul 30 12h32m17s