73P-BT/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 17173)
Orbital period : 5.45 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Feb 17 08h43 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.051 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.389 AU Right ascension 18 41 47.87 h m s Declination -20 49 49.1 ° ' " MPC report COD W97
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, B. Sandness, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.38-m f/4.6 Newton + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.02.17 12:27:57
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0073Pbt C2017 02 17.36319 18 41 47.87 -20 49 49.1 13.5 N W97
0073Pbt C2017 02 17.38006 18 41 53.26 -20 49 54.2 13.6 N W97
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 380 mm Instrument focale length 1748 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.6 Filter(s) None Camera ST11000 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Nova Autoguide No Exposure details 8x5mn Observatory MPC code W97 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.09 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Tracking adjusted on 73P movement. Observation submission date 2017 Feb 17 12h29m44s Observation modification date 2017 May 23 23h25m02s