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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Sep 24 00h06 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.4
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.201 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.201 AU
Right ascension23 48 24.49 h m s
Declination+05 08 53.6 ° ' "
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 2011.09.24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0078P         C2011 09 24.00434 23 48 24.49 +05 08 53.6          13.4 N      C10
0078P         C2011 09 24.01513 23 48 24.09 +05 08 48.7          13.4 N      C10
0078P         C2011 09 24.02537 23 48 23.72 +05 08 44.3          13.4 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
Seeing3
Moon elongation134 °
Air mass1.39
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Sep 24 15h09m13s
Observation modification date2011 Sep 26 13h30m01s

(Record n° 4672)

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