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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Orbital period : 6.54 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 May 03 01h36 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)20.5
Aperture radius used for m10.4 '
r (dist/Sun) 3.203 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.319 AU
Right ascension16 14 18.99 h m s
Declination+09 10 57.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.05.03
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0021P        KC2011 05 03.06671 16 14 18.99 +09 10 57.3          20.3 T      C10
0021P        KC2011 05 03.07414 16 14 18.60 +09 11 04.2          20.6 T      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2400 s
Exposure details20 x 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation142 °
Air mass1.29
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 APE DDP
Observation submission date2011 May 03 06h26m38s
Observation modification date2011 May 03 06h28m19s

(Record n° 2712)

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