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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Oct 07 20h08 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.6
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.161 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.185 AU
Right ascension23 40 53.63 h m s
Declination+03 21 02.0 ° ' "
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 2011.10.07
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-3
0078P         C2011 10 07.83883 23 40 53.63 +03 21 02.0          13.7 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 07.84867 23 40 53.34 +03 20 57.4          13.6 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 07.86093 23 40 52.97 +03 20 51.6          13.6 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
Filter(s)I Bessel
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
Seeing4
Moon elongation29 °
Air mass1.56
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-3
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Oct 08 18h44m44s
Observation modification date2011 Oct 09 10h24m23s

(Record n° 4718)

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