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41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak

Orbital period : 5.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 May 21 23h07 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter6.5 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.165 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.252 AU
Right ascension18 31 55.89 h m s
Declination+21 57 09.7 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.4 reflector + CCD
ACK Report 41P 2017/05/21
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0041P         C2017 05 21.96298 18 31 55.89 +21 57 09.7          15.0 N      K97
0041P         C2017 05 21.97604 18 31 55.80 +21 56 35.5          15.0 N      K97
0041P         C2017 05 21.98845 18 31 55.70 +21 56 02.9          14.9 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrumentperso
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1480 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.4
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300 Valmeca
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details45 x40s
Air mass1.32
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresMAXIMDL
Image resize factor0.873
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2017 Jun 05 21h11m51s
Observation modification date2017 Jun 10 12h02m50s

(Record n° 17792)

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