37P/Forbes (Record n° 18949)
Perihelion distance : 1.62 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 9 °
Orbital period : 6.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.53
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Mar 19 08h42 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.673 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.793 AU Right ascension 294.72183 ° Declination -28.57714 ° MPC report COD W96
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/5.2 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.03.19
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0037P C2018 03 19.36223 19 38 53.24 -28 34 37.7 16.0 N W96
0037P C2018 03 19.38027 19 38 56.58 -28 34 29.1 16.1 N W96
0037P C2018 03 19.39874 19 38 59.99 -28 34 20.3 15.9 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2080 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.2 Filter None Camera QSY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 30 x 30s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro d'Atacama Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.06 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Mar 19 13h57m46s Observation modification date 2018 Mar 19 14h36m33s