67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 24180)
Perihelion distance : 1.21 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 6.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.65
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2021 Oct 14 02h26 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.2 Aperture radius for m1 2.0 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.1 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 3.8 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 0.22 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 269 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.234 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.452 AU Right ascension 89.63208 ° Declination +24.23778 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Filter None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 6 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 181 s Picture exposure details 4+15*3.2+38*2.5+17*2.0s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 2 Moon phase 90 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 1.2 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning,flat,alignement,alignement sur comète, retrait gradient Remarks or comments Photométrie sur les 17 dernière poses (2h26.3 UT) totalisant 34s.
Couche verte: coma de 4.8' de mv=10.0 Observation submission date 2021 Oct 15 19h00m13s