88P/Howell (Record n° 14201)
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 29 09h08 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.2 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.810 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.561 AU Right ascension 37.91375 ° Declination +10.69903 ° 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 2015.07.29
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0088P C2015 07 29.38031 02 31 39.30 +10 41 56.5 15.2 N W96
0088P C2015 07 29.39457 02 31 40.34 +10 42 01.9 15.2 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 20 x 60s Moon elongation 121 ° Air mass 1.31 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.03 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Jul 29 13h52m13s Observation modification date 2015 Jul 29 13h53m06s