C/2016 A8 (LINEAR) (Record n° 15854)
Orbital period : 201.70 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Aug 21 07h13 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.885 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.109 AU Right ascension 22 24 25.61 h m s Declination +41 58 15.5 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON Jean Gabriel Bosch [jean-gabriel.Bosch@unige.ch]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-G.Bosch
MEA J.-G.Bosch
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.08.21 07:33:00
AC2 [jean-gabriel.Bosch@unige.ch]
NET UCAC-4
CK16A080 C2016 08 21.30086 22 24 25.61 +41 58 15.5 14.4 N W96
CK16A080 C2016 08 21.32253 22 24 15.15 +41 57 25.0 14.3 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 40x20s Air mass 3 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.56 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Aug 21 12h35m25s Observation modification date 2016 Aug 21 13h26m02s