73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 17163)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Feb 16 05h28 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.2 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.056 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.391 AU Right ascension 18 35 50.00 h m s Declination -20 44 10.9 ° ' " 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 2017.02.16 07:33:08
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0073P KC2017 02 16.22753 18 35 50.00 -20 44 10.9 15.9 N A77
0073P KC2017 02 16.22956 18 35 50.60 -20 44 11.3 16.3 N A77
0073P KC2017 02 16.23161 18 35 51.31 -20 44 12.8 16.4 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(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 12x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Feb 16 07h36m42s Observation modification date 2017 Feb 16 07h55m17s