67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Record n° 25072)
Perihelion distance : 1.21 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 6.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.65
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2022 Feb 04 21h32 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.5 Aperture radius for m1 2.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.7 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 4.2 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.32 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 280 ° Afrho 346 cm Afrho error 6 cm Afrho URL for more info https://lesia.obspm.fr/perso/nicolas-biver/COMETES/afrho-magnitudes.pdf r (dist/Sun) 1.654 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.683 AU 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 alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 1 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 72.8 s Picture exposure details 38x1.6s+3x4s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Moon phase 180 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 2 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning,flat,alignement,somme,retrait gradient - images RAW Remarks or comments Magnitude N&B (Afrho=306), Afrho couche R
Observation submission date 2022 Feb 13 17h26m55s Observation modification date 2022 Feb 17 14h24m00s