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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Aug 31 00h37 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)14.4
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.283 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.336 AU
Right ascension00 00 07.83 h m s
Declination+07 20 14.9 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.08.31
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0078P         C2011 08 31.02538 00 00 07.83 +07 20 14.9          14.4 N      C10
0078P         C2011 08 31.03623 00 00 07.61 +07 20 13.0          14.4 N      C10
0078P         C2011 08 31.04819 00 00 07.36 +07 20 10.7          14.4 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details15 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation178 °
Air mass1.34
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 Log/Iris GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Aug 31 10h49m23s
Observation modification date2011 Aug 31 18h23m36s

(Record n° 4133)

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