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78P/Gehrels

Orbital period : 7.23 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Oct 31 19h52 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.6
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.098 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.254 AU
Right ascension23 36 14.86 h m s
Declination+00 43 57.4 ° ' "
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 2011.10.31
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0078P         C2011 10 31.82764 23 36 14.86 +00 43 57.4          13.7 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 31.83462 23 36 14.90 +00 43 55.5          13.6 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 31.84222 23 36 14.95 +00 43 53.4          13.6 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 31.84985 23 36 15.00 +00 43 51.3          13.6 N      C10
0078P         C2011 10 31.85744 23 36 15.05 +00 43 49.3          13.6 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 time2400 s
Exposure details20 x 120s
Seeing3
Moon elongation69 °
Air mass1.49
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 DDP FC GIMP
Observation submission date2011 Nov 01 18h20m34s
Observation modification date2011 Nov 02 14h54m48s

(Record n° 4989)

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