62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18402)
Orbital period : 6.16 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Oct 23 03h57 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.8 Aperture radius used for m1 0.4 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.6 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " Coma diameter 6 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.410 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.464 AU Right ascension 09 43 19.21 h m s Declination +15 46 37.6 ° ' " 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 2017.10.23 08:05:51
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0062P KC2017 10 23.16464 09 43 19.21 +15 46 37.6 15.6 N A77
0062P KC2017 10 23.17357 09 43 21.08 +15 46 32.0 13.8 T A77
0062P KC2017 10 23.18209 09 43 22.83 +15 46 27.0 15.6 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 32x60s Air mass 1.5 Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad seeing, wind. Observation submission date 2017 Oct 23 08h09m25s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 23 20h24m36s