62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18396)
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 21 04h22 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " Coma diameter 5 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.415 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.476 AU Right ascension 144.09913 ° Declination +16.09575 ° 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 2017.10.21 07:59:08
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0062P KC2017 10 21.18203 09 36 23.79 +16 05 44.7 15.7 N A77
0062P KC2017 10 21.18608 09 36 24.63 +16 05 42.6 15.6 N A77
0062P KC2017 10 21.19013 09 36 25.50 +16 05 40.1 14.0 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 15x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Oct 21 08h02m14s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 21 09h25m54s