62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18490)
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 15 05h08 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.6 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " Coma diameter 6 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.384 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.349 AU Right ascension 165.43558 ° Declination +11.5475 ° 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 2017.11.15 07:55:35
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0062P KC2017 11 15.21379 11 01 44.54 +11 32 51.0 15.3 N A77
0062P KC2017 11 15.21825 11 01 45.44 +11 32 47.6 13.6 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 14x45s 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 15 08h12m13s Observation modification date 2017 Nov 15 08h22m02s