67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 14910)
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 Dec 18 07h41 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.2 " Tail position angle
(PA) 310 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.912 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.686 AU Right ascension 181.60154 ° Declination +7.97706 ° 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 2015.12.18 10:46:09
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0067P C2015 12 18.32013 12 06 24.37 +07 58 37.4 16.5 N W96
0067P C2015 12 18.33142 12 06 25.01 +07 58 34.0 16.6 N W96
0067P C2015 12 18.34271 12 06 25.74 +07 58 32.3 16.6 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 Autoguide No Picture exposure details 32x1mn 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 50° rot grad.
(and my first observation with new PC at CAO !)
Observation submission date 2015 Dec 18 11h00m25s Observation modification date 2016 Jan 16 02h11m54s