67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 13692)
Orbital period : 6.42 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Apr 17 09h36 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.8 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Tail position angle
(PA) 260 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.845 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.658 AU Right ascension 00 00 05.61 h m s Declination -04 54 25.8 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.04.17 12:41:10
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 04 17.40024 00 00 05.61 -04 54 25.8 16.7 N W96
0067P C2015 04 17.41277 00 00 07.28 -04 54 14.8 16.9 N 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 QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 4x4 Mount Paramount Exposure details 20x30s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4 Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.38 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (levels, crop) Remarks or comments Possible tail at PA 260° (almost opposite to the Sun) ? Observation submission date 2015 Apr 17 12h52m58s Observation modification date 2015 Apr 22 07h03m47s