78P/Gehrels (Record n° 4939)
Orbital period : 7.23 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2011 Oct 14 20h50 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.5 Aperture radius used for m1 1 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.9 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " Coma diameter 2 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 255 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.141 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.193 AU Right ascension 23 38 04.83 h m s Declination +02 27 21.6 ° ' " 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 2011.10.15 16:57:44
AC2 [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
NET USNO-A2.0
0078P C2011 10 14.86822 23 38 04.83 +02 27 21.6 13.9 N B51
0078P C2011 10 14.87301 23 38 04.69 +02 27 19.8 13.9 N B51
0078P C2011 10 14.88116 23 38 04.53 +02 27 16.1 13.9 N B51
0078P C2011 10 14.88662 23 38 04.43 +02 27 13.8 13.9 N B51
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter(s) None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Binning 1x1 Exposure total time 900 s Air mass 1.33 Observatory MPC code B51 Location 06 Vallauris Reference stars catalog USNO-A2.0
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2011 Oct 15 17h01m03s Observation modification date 2011 Oct 25 11h19m21s