78P/Gehrels (Record n° 4097)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Aug 22 00h25 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.9 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " Coma diameter 0.8 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 248 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.317 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.419 AU Right ascension 0.51783 ° Declination +7.64697 ° MPC report COD B51
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.08.22 15:48:57
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
0078P C2011 08 22.01736 00 02 04.28 +07 38 49.1 15.0 N B51
0078P C2011 08 22.02775 00 02 04.20 +07 38 48.5 15.0 N B51
0078P C2011 08 22.04129 00 02 04.09 +07 38 47.6 15.1 N B51
0078P C2011 08 22.01933 00 02 04.27 +07 38 48.9 13.9 T B51
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Binning 1x1 Exposure total time 1800 s Air mass 1.26 Observatory MPC code B51 Location 06 Vallauris Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-A2.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2011 Aug 22 16h22m46s Observation modification date 2011 Aug 22 16h24m45s