67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14568)
Orbital period : 6.42 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Oct 09 08h36 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.6 Aperture radius used for m1 0.52 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.2 Aperture radius used for m2 5.2 " Tail position angle
(PA) 310 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.422 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.805 AU Right ascension 09 51 24.41 h m s Declination +18 06 32.6 ° ' " 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 2015.10.09 15:36:50
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 10 09.35830 09 51 24.41 +18 06 32.6 15.1 N W96
0067P C2015 10 09.36490 09 51 25.57 +18 06 27.8 15.2 N W96
0067P C2015 10 09.38122 09 51 28.18 +18 06 16.6 15.2 N W96
0067P C2015 10 09.38782 09 51 29.28 +18 06 13.2 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(s) None Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Paramount 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 Oct 09 15h41m56s Observation modification date 2016 Jan 16 02h15m58s