88P/Howell (Record n° 31399)
Perihelion distance : 1.36 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 4 °
Orbital period : 5.48 years
Eccentricity : 0.56
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Apr 25 09h48 UT by Jean-Louis Virlichie
(Copyright Jean-Louis Virlichie)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.0 " Afrho 514 cm Afrho error 11 cm r (dist/Sun) 1.418 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.954 AU Right ascension 352.67121 ° Declination -6.61292 ° MPC report COD X03
CON J. L. Virlichie [jl.virlichie@gmail.com]
OBS J. L. Virlichie, P. Traverse, H. Roy
MEA J. L. Virlichie
TEL 0.36-m f/4.8 reflector + CMO
NUM 5
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.04.25 18:09:38
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jl.virlichie@gmail.com
0088P KB2026 04 25.40814 23 30 41.09 -06 36 46.5 13.7 V X03
0088P KB2026 04 25.41175 23 30 41.71 -06 36 42.7 13.8 V X03
0088P KB2026 04 25.41536 23 30 42.33 -06 36 38.8 13.8 V X03
0088P KB2026 04 25.41876 23 30 42.91 -06 36 35.3 13.8 V X03
0088P KB2026 04 25.42197 23 30 43.46 -06 36 31.9 13.8 V X03
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument ONTC 355 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 360 mm Instrument focale length 1728 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.8 Filter L Camera Player One IMX571 Mono Sensor CMOS Sensor size 23.5x15.7 mm2 Sensor pixels number 6252x4176 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount SW EQ8 Autoguide Yes Picture exposure details 9x30s Observatory MPC code X03 Location Poroto Chili Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho V13.05 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.86 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Apr 25 18h25m55s Observation modification date 2026 Apr 25 18h32m32s