62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 18506)
Orbital period : 6.16 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Nov 16 05h15 UT by Cyrille Calvet
(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )r (dist/Sun) 1.384 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.345 AU Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument TS ED Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 110 mm Instrument focale length 770 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7 Filter(s) IDAS LPS Camera ASI 1600 couleur (ZWO) Sensor CCD Sensor size 17.7x13.4 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4656 x 3520 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 2x2 Mount SW NEQ 6 pro-goto Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 900 s Exposure details 3x5mn Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 2 Location Tautavel 66720 France Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing DSS/Photoshop/Maximdl/ccdsoft URL for more information or pictures http://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2017/11/comete-62p/tsuchinshan-le-16-novembre-2017.html Observation submission date 2017 Nov 16 16h28m47s