73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 16580)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2016 Nov 27 05h06 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.4 m2 standard deviation 0.8 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 1.730 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.261 AU Right ascension 13 24 43.92 h m s Declination +00 01 01.1 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2016.11.28 07:49:50
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0073P KC2016 11 27.21250 13 24 43.92 +00 01 01.1 16.3 N A77
0073P KC2016 11 27.22032 13 24 45.10 +00 00 52.8 18.0 N A77
0073P KC2016 11 27.22813 13 24 46.36 +00 00 46.3 18.0 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 15x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Nov 28 07h51m30s Observation modification date 2016 Nov 28 07h57m41s