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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

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 Aug 10 03h02 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9.1
Aperture radius for m10.93 '
Magnitude (MPC m2)11.4
Magnitude standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius for m213 "
Afrho630 cm
Afrho error14 cm
r (dist/Sun) 1.107 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.527 AU
Right ascension23.27758 °
Declination+66.38458 °
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.08.10 06:52:50
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0021P        KC2018 08 10.12673 01 33 06.62 +66 23 04.5          11.2 R      A77
0021P        KC2018 08 10.13378 01 33 11.31 +66 23 01.3          11.5 R      A77
0021P        KC2018 08 10.14082 01 33 15.96 +66 22 57.7           9.1 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filterr
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Picture exposure details3x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.86 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfRho 10000km
Observation submission date2018 Aug 10 07h00m47s
Observation modification date2018 Aug 10 10h33m03s

(Record n° 19450)

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