88P/Howell (Record n° 14197)
Perihelion distance : 1.36 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 5.48 years
Eccentricity : 0.56
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jul 26 02h46 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.2 Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.8 Aperture radius for m2 8.75 " Coma diameter 1.25 ' Tail length 0.3 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 245 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.791 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.572 AU Right ascension 36.86821 ° Declination +10.35464 ° MPC report COD J43
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.5-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.07.28 07:47:21
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET NOMAD
0088P KC2015 07 26.11567 02 27 28.37 +10 21 16.7 15.8 N J43
0088P KC2015 07 26.12377 02 27 29.01 +10 21 19.7 15.8 N J43
0088P KC2015 07 26.13372 02 27 29.79 +10 21 24.0 13.2 T J43
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 500 mm Instrument focale length 1500 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Motorization Yes Autoguide No Picture exposure details 14x2 mn Observatory MPC code J43 Location J43 - Oukaimeden Reference stars catalog (ast) NOMAD
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.25 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Jul 28 07h52m42s Observation modification date 2015 Jul 28 16h06m52s