62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18724)
Orbital period : 6.16 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Dec 31 04h48 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.9 Aperture radius used for m1 0.4 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " Coma diameter 4.5 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.472 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.204 AU Right ascension 13 13 29.45 h m s Declination +03 42 57.9 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.12.31 07:51:54
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0062P KC2017 12 31.19974 13 13 29.45 +03 42 57.9 16.0 N A77
0062P KC2017 12 31.20791 13 13 30.64 +03 42 54.6 16.0 N A77
0062P KC2017 12 31.21609 13 13 31.71 +03 42 50.2 13.9 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) L Camera ATIK460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 21x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad seeing Observation submission date 2017 Dec 31 07h55m33s Observation modification date 2017 Dec 31 08h19m16s