62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18346)
Perihelion distance : 1.27 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 5 °
Orbital period : 6.19 years
Eccentricity : 0.62
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Oct 11 03h46 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.3 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 16 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.442 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.543 AU Right ascension 135.31004 ° Declination +17.54325 ° 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 2017.10.11 08:07:47
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0062P C2017 10 11.15669 09 01 14.41 +17 32 35.7 15.9 N A77
0062P C2017 10 11.16481 09 01 16.12 +17 32 32.2 16.0 N A77
0062P C2017 10 11.17372 09 01 18.02 +17 32 27.9 14.3 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter L Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 3x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 0.6 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Oct 11 08h12m00s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 11 08h40m10s