88P/Howell (Record n° 13798)
Orbital period : 5.48 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 02 09h01 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.4 Aperture radius used for m1 0.7 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Tail position angle
(PA) 240 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.388 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.733 AU Right ascension 23 22 08.72 h m s Declination -07 46 58.9 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.05.02 22:01:49
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0088P C2015 05 02.37554 23 22 08.72 -07 46 58.9 14.0 N W96
0088P C2015 05 02.37909 23 22 09.30 -07 46 55.7 14.1 N W96
0088P C2015 05 02.38303 23 22 10.02 -07 46 51.2 14.1 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 4x4 Mount Paramount Autoguide No Exposure details 20x30s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.38 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (grad, levels, ddp, crop) Observation submission date 2015 May 02 22h15m22s Observation modification date 2015 May 02 23h20m13s