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62P/Tsuchinshan

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 17 03h55 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)14.3
Aperture radius for m10.4 '
Magnitude (MPC m2)15.9
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m26.56 "
Coma diameter3.3 '
Tail length0.1 °
Tail position angle (PA)295 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.425 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.502 AU
Right ascension140.58042 °
Declination+16.71047 °
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 2017.10.17 07:50:39
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0062P        KC2017 10 17.16293 09 22 19.30 +16 42 37.7          15.9 N      A77
0062P        KC2017 10 17.16875 09 22 20.53 +16 42 35.1          15.9 N      A77
0062P        KC2017 10 17.17450 09 22 21.69 +16 42 31.8          14.3 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
FilterL
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Picture exposure details21x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.8 "/pix
Image processingmasque flou
Observation submission date2017 Oct 17 08h01m30s
Observation modification date2017 Oct 17 08h07m37s

(Record n° 18378)

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