78P/Gehrels (Record n° 30286)
Perihelion distance : 2 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 6 °
Orbital period : 7.21 years
Eccentricity : 0.46
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2025 Nov 03 17h33 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6 " r (dist/Sun) 2.699 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.646 AU Right ascension 303.81879 ° Declination -13.84178 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport file updated 2025.11.04 05:25:45
NET UCAC4
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0078P KC2025 11 03.73117 20 15 16.51 -13 50 30.4 17.3 r L27
0078P KC2025 11 03.74203 20 15 17.13 -13 50 29.8 17.4 r L27
0078P KC2025 11 03.75289 20 15 17.90 -13 50 28.5 17.4 r L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Picture exposure details 15 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC4
Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2025 Nov 04 06h08m26s Observation modification date 2025 Nov 04 07h06m03s