41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (Record n° 17561)
Orbital period : 5.43 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Apr 17 23h54 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 9.5 Aperture radius used for m1 2.5 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.6 Aperture radius used for m2 5 " Coma diameter 5 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 3 r (dist/Sun) 1.047 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.159 AU Right ascension 17 19 17.4 h m s Declination +53 25 04 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T407 F/D 4.3 Dobson Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony A7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Sensor temperature 5 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 28 s Exposure details 1s+29*1/2s+25*1/2s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 3 Air mass 1 Location Crespières, yvelines, France Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing somme de 2 séries à 23h54.4 et 24h03.1 recentrées sur la comète Observation submission date 2017 Apr 21 18h59m17s