62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18481)
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 Nov 10 04h07 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.7 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.386 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.370 AU Right ascension 161.25654 ° Declination +12.52842 ° 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 2017.11.10 07:42:05
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0062P KC2017 11 10.17121 10 45 01.57 +12 31 42.3 15.4 N A77
0062P KC2017 11 10.17630 10 45 02.55 +12 31 39.3 15.4 N A77
0062P KC2017 11 10.18140 10 45 03.56 +12 31 35.1 13.7 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Picture exposure details 33x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Nov 10 07h47m12s Observation modification date 2017 Nov 10 08h01m33s