74P/Smirnova-Chernykh (Record n° 18379)
Orbital period : 9.19 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Oct 17 04h39 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.56 " Tail position angle
(PA) 307 ° r (dist/Sun) 3.555 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.196 AU Right ascension 10 52 00.92 h m s Declination +12 59 14.0 ° ' " 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 2017.10.17 07:50:39
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0074P KC2017 10 17.19377 10 52 00.92 +12 59 14.0 17.3 N A77
0074P KC2017 10 17.19832 10 52 01.24 +12 59 12.3 17.4 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) L Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 5x120 Moon elongation 15 ° Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments tail 30" Observation submission date 2017 Oct 17 08h01m30s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 17 08h10m09s