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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Orbital period : 6.54 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Jun 26 21h42 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.7
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.802 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.119 AU
Right ascension15 23 26.51 h m s
Declination+15 24 05.5 ° ' "
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 2011.06.26
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0021P        KC2011 06 26.90447 15 23 26.51 +15 24 05.5          18.9 N      C10
0021P        KC2011 06 26.92773 15 23 25.51 +15 24 06.4          18.5 N      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-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details15 X 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation144 °
Air mass1.22
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 APE DDP FC
Remarks or commentsMode automatique
Observation submission date2011 Jun 28 13h48m16s
Observation modification date2011 Jun 28 14h05m53s

(Record n° 3702)

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