21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 19364)
Perihelion distance : 1.01 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 32 °
Orbital period : 6.52 years
Eccentricity : 0.71
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Jul 19 00h24 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 9.8 Aperture radius for m1 2.5 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 12.5 Aperture radius for m2 6.0 " Coma diameter 5.5 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 0.06 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 230 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.258 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.695 AU Right ascension 336.72625 ° Declination +60.09639 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson T407mm F/D=4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Filter None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount Dosbson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 113 s Picture exposure details 38*2.5+2+3*5sec Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 4 Moon phase 100 ° Moon elongation 115 ° Air mass 1.1 Location Boulonville (28) Reference stars catalog (ast) GSC (HST) Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing alignement, somme, retrait gradient Remarks or comments Coma verte de C2 de 5.5'
magnitudes R/V/B (5')= 10.0/9.5/9.8 Observation submission date 2018 Jul 20 16h05m00s