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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Orbital period : 6.54 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 May 01 01h59 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)20.3
Aperture radius used for m10.4 '
r (dist/Sun) 3.217 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.340 AU
Right ascension16 15 46.26 h m s
Declination+08 47 15.9 ° ' "
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 2011.05.01
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0021P        KC2011 05 01.08285 16 15 46.26 +08 47 15.9          20.4 T      C10
0021P        KC2011 05 01.10006 16 15 45.43 +08 47 26.4          20.4 T      C10
0021P        KC2011 05 01.11881 16 15 44.77 +08 47 37.0          20.1 T      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-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3960 s
Exposure details33X120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation126 °
Air mass1.30
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 APE DDP FC
Observation submission date2011 May 01 06h46m45s
Observation modification date2011 May 02 13h14m58s

(Record n° 2702)

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