62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18644)
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 Dec 19 04h37 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.432 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.237 AU Right ascension 190.87242 ° Declination +5.34697 ° 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 2017.12.19 07:56:18
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0062P KC2017 12 19.19214 12 43 29.38 +05 20 49.1 15.8 N A77
0062P KC2017 12 19.19619 12 43 29.95 +05 20 47.5 15.8 N A77
0062P KC2017 12 19.20043 12 43 30.66 +05 20 45.2 14.1 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 15x60s 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 Dec 19 08h31m57s Observation modification date 2017 Dec 19 08h39m21s