C/2020 F8 (SWAN) (Record n° 21952)
Orbital period : 4436.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2020 Apr 28 09h09 UT by Jean-Louis Virlichie
(Copyright Jean-Louis Virlichie)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 10.4 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 0.835 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.824 AU Right ascension 23 46 11.03 h m s Declination -21 48 46.3 ° ' " MPC report COD X03
CON Jean-Louis Virlichie [jl.virlichie@gmail.com]
OBS J. L. Virlichie, P. Traverse
MEA J. L. Virlichie
TEL 0.35-m f/4.7 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2020.04.29 22:40:03
AC2 jl.virlichie@gmail.com
NET UCAC-4
CK20F080 C2020 04 28.38096 23 46 11.03 -21 48 46.3 10.1 V X03
CK20F080 C2020 04 28.39231 23 46 13.90 -21 47 41.6 10.2 V X03
CK20F080 C2020 04 28.39993 23 46 15.73 -21 46 58.5 10.2 V X03
CK20F080 C2020 04 28.40762 23 46 17.68 -21 46 14.8 10.7 V X03
CK20F080 C2020 04 28.41525 23 46 19.54 -21 45 31.7 10.6 V X03
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument ONTC 355 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 350 mm Instrument focale length 1645 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.7 Filter(s) L Camera Moravian G3 KAF 16200 Sensor CCD Sensor size 27x21.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4500x3600 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount SW EQ8 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 16x30s Observatory MPC code X03 Location Poroto Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Image processing PixInsight Observation submission date 2020 Apr 29 22h47m43s Observation modification date 2020 Apr 29 23h18m56s