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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 27 17h18 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.4
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m210.8 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.162 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.374 AU
Right ascension22 45 18.18 h m s
Declination-05 16 23.5 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@free.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.28-m f/2.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK A77 2018.12.28 07:23:32
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0078P         C2018 12 27.72116 22 45 18.18 -05 16 23.5          15.4 R      A77
0078P         C2018 12 27.72616 22 45 18.76 -05 16 20.8          15.3 R      A77
0078P         C2018 12 27.73591 22 45 19.83 -05 16 16.1          15.4 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig7
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)280 mm
Instrument focale length616 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.2
Filter(s)None
Cameraasi294MCpro
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number4144x2822
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
Mount10MICRON
Exposure details9x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.54 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Dec 28 07h26m17s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 28 07h30m14s

(Record n° 20266)

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