78P/Gehrels (Record n° 21625)
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 19 03h06 UT by Jean-Louis Virlichie
(Copyright Jean-Louis Virlichie)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 3.108 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.148 AU Right ascension 135.38083 ° Declination +8.02314 ° 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 2020.02.19 19:23:03
AC2 jl.virlichie@gmail.com
NET UCAC-4
0078P C2020 02 19.12912 09 01 31.40 +08 01 23.3 17.18V X03
0078P C2020 02 19.13867 09 01 30.98 +08 01 26.0 17.18V X03
0078P C2020 02 19.14826 09 01 30.57 +08 01 28.8 17.11V X03
0078P C2020 02 19.15782 09 01 30.15 +08 01 31.5 17.22V X03
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument ONTC 355 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 27x21.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4500x3600 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount SW EQ8 Motorization No Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 4x2mn 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 19 22h51m54s Observation modification date 2020 Feb 19 23h00m40s