78P/Gehrels (Record n° 19809)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Sep 29 19h09 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.7 Aperture radius for m1 0.41 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.6 " r (dist/Sun) 2.488 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.686 AU Right ascension 319.97779 ° Declination -7.79289 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.09.29
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0078P C2018 09 29.79795 21 19 54.67 -07 47 34.4 15.8 N L27
0078P C2018 09 29.82921 21 19 54.43 -07 47 42.4 15.8 N L27
0078P KC2018 09 29.84166 21 19 54.59 -07 47 45.7 14.7 T L27
0078P C2018 09 29.86124 21 19 54.14 -07 47 51.0 15.8 N L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 800 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter None Camera ATIK 314L+ Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Astronomy Equipment AEb Autoguide No Picture exposure details 60 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.65 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Sep 30 04h55m57s Observation modification date 2018 Sep 30 16h00m12s