67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 11728)
Perihelion distance : 1.21 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 6.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.65
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 May 02 08h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 21.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius for m2 2.7 " r (dist/Sun) 4.103 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.701 AU Right ascension 297.88929 ° Declination -27.15808 ° MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.05.02
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0067P KC2014 05 02.33500 19 51 33.43 -27 09 29.1 21.2 N W96
0067P KC2014 05 02.38293 19 51 33.96 -27 09 33.5 21.6 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 40 x 180s Moon elongation 142 ° Air mass 1.15 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 May 02 14h37m18s Observation modification date 2014 May 02 14h40m53s