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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Oct 16 19h28 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)12.8
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m214 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.136 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.197 AU
Right ascension23 37 29.31 h m s
Declination+02 13 17.4 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.090-m f/5.3 Maksutov-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.10.16
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0078P         C2011 10 16.81123 23 37 29.31 +02 13 17.4          12.8 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 16.82675 23 37 29.02 +02 13 10.6          12.7 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 16.84226 23 37 28.73 +02 13 04.1          12.8 N      C10
Instrument typeCassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)90 mm
Instrument focale length477 mm
Instrument focale/diameter5.3
CameraATICK 314L+
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.45 x 6.45 mm2
Sensor pixels number1360 x 1024
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2700 s
Exposure details15 X 180s
Seeing2
Moon elongation79 °
Air mass1.76
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.85 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Oct 17 14h22m40s
Observation modification date2011 Oct 17 14h50m58s

(Record n° 4949)

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