62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18769)
Perihelion distance : 1.27 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 5 °
Orbital period : 6.19 years
Eccentricity : 0.62
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Jan 18 04h13 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.7 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.550 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.153 AU Right ascension 207.72446 ° Declination +2.13464 ° 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 2018.01.18 06:39:32
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0062P KC2018 01 18.17555 13 50 53.87 +02 08 04.7 16.5 N A77
0062P KC2018 01 18.18047 13 50 54.38 +02 08 03.3 16.5 N A77
0062P KC2018 01 18.18536 13 50 54.86 +02 08 02.6 14.7 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 6x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.3 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Jan 18 06h49m16s Observation modification date 2018 Jan 18 18h59m29s