73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 17698)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 May 19 09h34 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.4 m2 standard deviation 0.5 Aperture radius used for m2 6.1 " r (dist/Sun) 1.307 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.774 AU Right ascension 00 57 39.36 h m s Declination -02 47 44.9 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m1 : 46" for CK15E61R / 32" for 71P
COM Aperture radius for m2 : 6.1"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.05.19 15:05:38
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0073P KC2017 05 19.39895 00 57 39.36 -02 47 44.9 16.4 N W96
0073P KC2017 05 19.40674 00 57 40.57 -02 47 38.6 16.4 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Filter(s) None Camera STF8300 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 15x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.53 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (levels, grad, crop) Observation submission date 2017 May 19 15h12m38s Observation modification date 2017 May 23 23h17m53s