62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18378)
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 m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.56 " Coma diameter 3.3 ' Tail length 0.1 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 295 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.425 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.502 AU Right ascension 140.58042 ° 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 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 21x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Image processing masque flou Observation submission date 2017 Oct 17 08h01m30s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 17 08h07m37s