88P/Howell (Record n° 31698)
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 Jul 27 03h24 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.3 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.915 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.800 AU Right ascension 41.73838 ° Declination +12.63167 ° MPC report COD Y87
CON J.-G. Bosch
OBS J.-G. Bosch
MEA J.-G. Bosch
TEL 0.25-m f/4.75 reflector + CMO
NUM 24
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.07.27 07:48:33
NET Gaia DR2
AC2 jgbosch@free.fr
0088P KB2026 07 27.14132 02 46 57.21 +12 37 54.0 15.3 G Y87
0088P KB2026 07 27.14684 02 46 57.64 +12 37 56.1 15.3 G Y87
0088P KB2026 07 27.15325 02 46 58.13 +12 37 58.4 15.2 G Y87
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 1187.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.75 Camera Asi 294MM Sensor CMOS Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 4x4 Mount EQ6-R pro Exposure details 63x20 Observatory MPC code Y87 Location Trevinca skies-Amalthea Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Jul 27 07h49m47s Observation modification date 2026 Jul 27 07h54m02s