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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Nov 15 18h18 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.7
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.066 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.347 AU
Right ascension23 41 39.69 h m s
Declination+00 00 54.5 ° ' "
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 2011.11.15
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0078P         C2011 11 15.76275 23 41 39.69 +00 00 54.5          13.7 N      C10
0078P         C2011 11 15.77346 23 41 40.04 +00 00 53.7          13.7 N      C10
0078P         C2011 11 15.78406 23 41 40.39 +00 00 53.0          13.7 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-25 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details15 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation113 °
Air mass1.64
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Nov 15 23h49m07s
Observation modification date2011 Nov 16 11h17m08s

(Record n° 5146)

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