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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Perihelion distance : 1.01 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 32 °
Orbital period : 6.52 years
Eccentricity : 0.71

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IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Aug 15 01h59 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 1.080 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.493 AU
Instrumental configurationConfig3
InstrumentSW Quattro
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
FilterIDAS LPS
CameraZwo ASI 1600mcc
SensorCCD
Sensor size17.7 x 13.4 mm2
Sensor pixels number4656 x 3520
Sensor temperature-22 °C
Binning2x2
MountSW EQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time8700 s
Picture exposure details29x5mn
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)3.5
LocationTautavel 66720 France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.31 "/pix
Image processingDSS.Maxim DL.photoshop
Observation submission date2018 Aug 15 19h27m09s

(Record n° 19498)

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