67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14411)
Orbital period : 6.42 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Sep 11 09h11 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12 Aperture radius used for m1 0.52 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.2 " Tail position angle
(PA) 300 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.293 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.779 AU Right ascension 08 22 25.58 h m s Declination +22 42 26.0 ° ' " 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 2015.09.11 13:55:56
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 09 11.38260 08 22 25.58 +22 42 26.0 14.0 N W96
0067P C2015 09 11.38957 08 22 27.11 +22 42 23.4 14.2 N W96
0067P C2015 09 11.39471 08 22 28.12 +22 42 20.1 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 -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Paramount Autoguide Yes Exposure details 16x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (http://www.spaceobs.com/fr/) Reference stars catalog 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 Sep 11 13h58m19s Observation modification date 2016 Jan 16 02h16m57s