67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14370)
Orbital period : 6.42 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Sep 04 09h26 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.2 " Tail position angle
(PA) 290 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.272 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.773 AU Right ascension 07 56 59.94 h m s Declination +23 30 19.0 ° ' " 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 2015.09.04 11:55:31
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 09 04.39313 07 56 59.94 +23 30 19.0 14.0 N W96
0067P C2015 09 04.40026 07 57 01.48 +23 30 16.2 14.0 N W96
0067P C2015 09 04.40869 07 57 03.38 +23 30 13.0 13.9 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 3x3 Mount Paramount Exposure details 14x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (http://www.spaceobs.com/fr/) Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.04 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Tracking rates set on comet orbital elements. Observation submission date 2015 Sep 04 11h57m21s Observation modification date 2015 Sep 04 15h19m30s