67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14611)
Orbital period : 6.42 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Oct 16 08h31 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.463 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.808 AU Right ascension 10 10 23.44 h m s Declination +16 48 27.1 ° ' " 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 2015.10.16 11:29:08
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 10 16.35455 10 10 23.44 +16 48 27.1 15.0 N W96
0067P C2015 10 16.36850 10 10 25.53 +16 48 18.7 15.1 N W96
0067P C2015 10 16.37376 10 10 26.41 +16 48 15.0 15.2 N W96
0067P C2015 10 16.38036 10 10 27.42 +16 48 11.2 15.2 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 17x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile 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 Oct 16 11h38m56s Observation modification date 2016 Jan 16 02h15m18s