62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18272)
Orbital period : 6.16 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Sep 22 08h57 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.9 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.515 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.698 AU Right ascension 07 55 55.32 h m s Declination +19 22 59.0 ° ' " 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 : 0.8'
COM Aperture radius for m2 : 6.4"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.09.22 12:25:12
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
0062P C2017 09 22.37293 07 55 55.32 +19 22 59.0 16.8 N W96
0062P C2017 09 22.38153 07 55 57.02 +19 22 56.2 16.9 N W96
0062P C2017 09 22.39012 07 55 58.65 +19 22 55.5 17.0 N W96
Instrument Marcon RC 400 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 QSI 532ws-M1 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 23x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.59 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Mount speeds set to follow comet Observation submission date 2017 Sep 22 13h26m58s Observation modification date 2017 Sep 23 10h19m05s