67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 12542)
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 Sep 15 01h52 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 20.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.4 Aperture radius for m2 2 " r (dist/Sun) 3.365 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.946 AU Right ascension 279.29688 ° Declination -30.46153 ° 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 2014.09.15
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0067P KC2014 09 15.07799 18 37 11.25 -30 27 41.5 21.0 N W96
0067P KC2014 09 15.13235 18 37 11.39 -30 27 35.1 20.3 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 40 x 180s Moon elongation 150 ° Air mass 1.08 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 Sep 15 06h25m31s Observation modification date 2014 Sep 15 06h26m16s