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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Sep 29 22h07 UT by Joel Nicolas


(Copyright Joel Nicolas)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)12.1
Aperture radius used for m11 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.9
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m25.6 "
Coma diameter2 '
Tail position angle (PA)245 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.185 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.190 AU
Right ascension23 44 59.92 h m s
Declination+04 23 36.6 ° ' "
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 2011.10.03 10:20:34
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
0078P         C2011 09 29.92132 23 44 59.92 +04 23 36.6          14.0 N      B51
0078P         C2011 09 29.93050 23 44 59.61 +04 23 32.3          13.9 N      B51
0078P         C2011 09 29.93929 23 44 59.27 +04 23 28.2          13.9 N      B51
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)410 mm
Instrument focale length1353 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.3
Filter(s)None
CameraST8XME
SensorCCD
Binning1x1
Exposure total time1200 s
Air mass1.29
Observatory MPC codeB51
Location06 Vallauris
Reference stars catalogUSNO-A2.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.4 "/pix
Observation submission date2011 Oct 03 10h23m18s
Observation modification date2011 Oct 07 18h41m42s

(Record n° 4687)

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