67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14341)
Perihelion distance : 1.21 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 6.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.65
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Aug 28 09h24 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.257 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.769 AU Right ascension 112.60671 ° Declination +24.07744 ° 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 2015.08.28 12:36:00
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 08 28.39186 07 30 25.61 +24 04 38.8 13.9 N W96
0067P C2015 08 28.40465 07 30 28.58 +24 04 36.9 14.0 N W96
0067P C2015 08 28.41443 07 30 30.83 +24 04 34.0 13.9 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 QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Paramount Picture exposure details 4x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.04 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Tracking rates set on comet orbital elements Observation submission date 2015 Aug 28 12h38m03s Observation modification date 2015 Aug 29 10h15m00s