88P/Howell (Record n° 13841)
Orbital period : 5.48 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 11 08h36 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " Coma diameter 3.50 ' Tail length 9 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.411 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.723 AU Right ascension 23 47 56.21 h m s Declination -05 11 18.7 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [jean-gabriel.bosch@unige.ch]
OBS A. Maury, J.-G. Bosch
MEA J.-G. Bosch
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.05.11 10:07:49
AC2 jean-gabriel.bosch@unige.ch
NET UCAC-4
0088P C2015 05 11.35815 23 47 56.21 -05 11 18.7 13.9 N W96
0088P C2015 05 11.38597 23 48 00.90 -05 10 50.2 14.0 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 -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Paramount Motorization Yes Exposure details 50x1mn Air mass 2.5 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro Atacama Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix URL for more information or pictures http://transitionsciel.blogspot.fr/ Observation submission date 2015 May 11 18h18m08s Observation modification date 2015 May 11 18h23m37s