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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Orbital period : 6.54 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Sep 08 03h30 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 1.013 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.393 AU
Instrumental configurationConfig3
InstrumentSW Quattro
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)IDAS LPS
CameraZwo ASI1600mcc
SensorCCD
Sensor size 17.7 x 13.4 mm2
Sensor pixels number4656x3520
Sensor temperature-22 °C
Binning2x2
MountSWEQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time5460 s
Exposure details91x1mn
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)4
Seeing2
LocationTautavel 66720 France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.31 "/pix
Image processingDSS.Maxim DL.Photoshop
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2018/09/comet-21p/giacobini-zinner-le-08-septembre-2018.html
Observation submission date2018 Sep 09 21h14m28s

(Record n° 19653)

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