78P/Gehrels (Record n° 21588)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2020 Feb 11 05h20 UT by Jean-Louis Virlichie
(Copyright Jean-Louis Virlichie)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 3.072 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.095 AU Right ascension 136.85796 ° Declination +7.38497 ° MPC report COD X03
CON Jean-Louis Virlichie [jl.virlichie@gmail.com]
OBS J. L. Virlichie, P. Traverse
MEA J. L. Virlichie
TEL 0.35-m f/5.0 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2020.02.11 21:10:45
AC2 jl.virlichie@gmail.com
NET UCAC-4
0078P KC2020 02 11.22204 09 07 25.91 +07 23 05.9 16.84V X03
0078P KC2020 02 11.23675 09 07 25.18 +07 23 10.1 17.23V X03
0078P KC2020 02 11.25501 09 07 24.31 +07 23 15.4 17.05V X03
0078P KC2020 02 11.27247 09 07 23.44 +07 23 20.3 17.03V X03
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument ONTC 14 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 350 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.0 Filter L Camera Moravian G3 KAF 16200 Sensor CCD Sensor size 27.1x21.7 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4524x3624 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount SW EQ8 Motorization No Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 10x2mn Observatory MPC code X03 Location Poroto Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2020 Feb 11 22h09m42s Observation modification date 2020 Feb 11 22h21m00s