62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18430)
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 28 04h09 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.9 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " Coma diameter 5 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.401 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.435 AU Right ascension 150.18117 ° Declination +14.9315 ° 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
COM Photometry aperture (m2) radius 6.4 arcsec (8 pixels, 0.8 arcsec/pix)
COM Photometry aperture (m1) radius 0.4 arcmin (30 pixels, 0.8 arcsec/pix)
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.10.28 08:23:46
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0062P KC2017 10 28.17320 10 00 43.48 +14 55 53.4 15.6 N A77
0062P KC2017 10 28.17613 10 00 44.13 +14 55 50.8 15.6 N A77
0062P KC2017 10 28.17917 10 00 44.71 +14 55 49.2 13.9 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 19x30s 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 28 08h32m51s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 28 09h02m58s