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78P/Gehrels

Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Oct 06 22h29 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Magnitude (MPC m2)13.5
Aperture radius for m28 "
Tail length0.06 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.164 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.185 AU
Right ascension355.32913 °
Declination+3.46889 °
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 2011.10.06
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0078P         C2011 10 06.93672 23 41 18.99 +03 28 08.0          13.5 R      C10
0078P         C2011 10 06.94483 23 41 18.75 +03 28 04.2          13.5 R      C10
0078P         C2011 10 06.96074 23 41 18.25 +03 27 56.7          13.5 R      C10
0078P         C2011 10 06.99279 23 41 17.27 +03 27 41.5          13.6 R      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
FilterR (RGB)
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 time1920 s
Picture exposure details16 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation41 °
Air mass1.41
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Oct 07 06h08m39s
Observation modification date2011 Oct 07 15h22m06s

(Record n° 4712)

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