88P/Howell (Record n° 1518)
Perihelion distance : 1.36 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 5.48 years
Eccentricity : 0.56
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2010 Dec 31 20h08 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 15.7 Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.3 Coma diameter 0.67 ' r (dist/Sun) 3.712 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.871 AU Right ascension 60.54929 ° Declination +22.20839 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.5-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.01.01 11:19:59
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0088P KC2010 12 31.83899 04 02 11.83 +22 12 30.2 17.2 N A77
0088P KC2010 12 31.85694 04 02 11.20 +22 12 28.9 17.9 N A77
0088P KC2010 12 31.87490 04 02 10.57 +22 12 27.4 17.9 N A77
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 500 mm Instrument focale length 1500 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera sbig ST11k Sensor CCD Sensor size 24x36 mm2 Binning 2x2 Picture exposure details 8x180s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.24 "/pix Observation submission date 2011 Jan 01 12h28m57s Observation modification date 2011 Jan 01 17h51m23s