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41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak

Orbital period : 5.43 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 May 27 01h05 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) 1.202 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.273 AU
Right ascension18 31 15.86 h m s
Declination+18 15 47.3 ° ' "
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  2017/05/27
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0041P         C2017 05 27.04544 18 31 15.86 +18 15 47.3          15.1 N      K97
0041P         C2017 05 27.06281 18 31 15.43 +18 15 02.9          14.9 N      K97
0041P         C2017 05 27.07412 18 31 15.16 +18 14 33.9          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-14.4 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300 Valmeca
Exposure total time3060 s
Exposure details51x60s
Air mass1.16
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Image resize factor0.728
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPrism
Observation submission date2017 Jun 05 21h42m24s
Observation modification date2017 Jun 08 22h53m01s

(Record n° 17802)

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