62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18569)
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 29 04h27 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 6.5 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 295 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.391 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.297 AU Right ascension 176.53667 ° Declination +8.83003 ° 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 2017.11.29 07:20:58
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0062P KC2017 11 29.18548 11 46 08.80 +08 49 48.1 15.3 N A77
0062P KC2017 11 29.19051 11 46 09.68 +08 49 44.6 15.3 N A77
0062P KC2017 11 29.19539 11 46 10.58 +08 49 41.5 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 18x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments Tail 4' pa 295 Observation submission date 2017 Nov 29 07h26m47s Observation modification date 2017 Nov 29 07h48m39s