162P/Siding Spring (Record n° 31885)
Perihelion distance : 1.29 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 28 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.58
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 19 02h53 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 1.860 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.383 AU Right ascension 141.38879 ° Declination +36.93397 ° MPC report COD L27
COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 reflector + CCD
NUM 5
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.09.19 07:27:00
NET ATLAS2
0162P KC2026 09 19.12021 09 25 33.31 +36 56 02.3 18.0 r L27
0162P KC2026 09 19.13323 09 25 35.39 +36 55 59.3 17.8 r L27
0162P KC2026 09 19.14625 09 25 37.46 +36 55 56.4 17.7 r L27
0162P KC2026 09 19.15783 09 25 39.30 +36 55 53.6 17.8 r L27
0162P KC2026 09 19.17087 09 25 41.37 +36 55 50.6 17.7 r L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 80 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2 Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 19 05h45m32s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 19 06h02m40s