88P/Howell (Record n° 31368)
Orbital period : 5.48 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Apr 21 09h43 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.7 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.406 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.955 AU Right ascension 23 19 05.52 h m s Declination -07 47 30.4 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON P.Ditz
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CMO
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport CodW96-PDI #0088P obs2026-04-21 (L_28x20s_bin3) file updated 2026.04.21 09:52:36
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
0088P KB2026 04 21.40460 23 19 05.52 -07 47 30.4 13.7 V W96
0088P KB2026 04 21.40713 23 19 06.01 -07 47 27.4 13.6 V W96
0088P KB2026 04 21.40953 23 19 06.47 -07 47 24.6 13.7 V W96
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument PlaneWave CDK17 Instrument type Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 430 mm Instrument focale length 2924 mm Instrument focale/diameter 6.8 Filter(s) L Camera QHY 268M Sensor CMOS Sensor size 23.5x15.7 mm2 Sensor pixels number 6252x4176 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 3x3 Mount Astelco NTM500 Exposure total time 560 s Exposure details 28x20s Air mass 2.15 Observatory MPC code W96 Location SpaceObs Chili Aitp Reference stars catalog ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 0.75 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.79 "/pix Image processing Prism11 & Gimp Observation submission date 2026 Apr 21 19h10m42s Observation modification date 2026 Apr 21 19h20m48s