66P/du Toit (Record n° 19179)
Orbital period : 14.95 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 May 18 09h51 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.290 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.896 AU Right ascension 23 04 49.63 h m s Declination -34 59 26.5 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m1 m2 : 0.54' 6.4"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.05.18 12:40:14
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0066P C2018 05 18.41008 23 04 49.63 -34 59 26.5 15.6 N W96
0066P C2018 05 18.41517 23 04 50.95 -34 59 20.3 15.7 N W96
0066P C2018 05 18.41940 23 04 52.02 -34 59 16.5 15.6 N W96
Instrument Marcon RC 400 Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 23x30s Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.07 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (crop, levels, ddp) Observation submission date 2018 May 18 12h44m38s Observation modification date 2018 May 18 14h42m16s