41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (Record n° 17349)
Orbital period : 5.43 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Mar 21 22h42 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.8 Aperture radius used for m1 3 ' Coma diameter 6 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 2 r (dist/Sun) 1.090 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.152 AU Right ascension 12 57 55 h m s Declination +55 43 40 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony A7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 1x1 Mount Dobson azimutal Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 20.5 s Exposure details 41x1/2s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4.5 Seeing 3 Moon phase 110 ° Air mass 1.0 Location Versailles, France Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Image resize factor 0.25 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 3.0 "/pix Image processing somme alignées sous IRIS, retrait gradient
image réduite à 25%, ajustement du contraste Remarks or comments Nord vers 7h sur l'image (PA~150°) Observation submission date 2017 Mar 22 18h18m02s