73P-BT/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 17124)
Perihelion distance : 0.94 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 11 °
Orbital period : 5.4 years
Eccentricity : 0.69
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Feb 11 05h21 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.3 Aperture radius for m1 0.2 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " Coma diameter 0.5 ' Right ascension 272.42017 ° Declination -20.14861 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.02.11 07:37:14
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0073Pbt KC2017 02 11.22305 18 09 40.84 -20 08 55.0 13.9 N A77
0073Pbt KC2017 02 11.22731 18 09 42.21 -20 08 57.9 13.7 N A77
0073Pbt KC2017 02 11.23158 18 09 43.52 -20 08 59.8 13.7 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure total time 780 s Exposure details 13x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Feb 11 08h32m59s Observation modification date 2017 May 23 23h32m01s