143P/Kowal-Mrkos (Record n° 18509)
Orbital period : 8.86 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Nov 17 04h51 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.9 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " Tail length 0.0056 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 300 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.786 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.188 AU Right ascension 11 42 58.97 h m s Declination -02 37 05.9 ° ' " 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 2017.11.17 07:13:30
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0143P KC2017 11 17.20229 11 42 58.97 -02 37 05.9 19.2 N A77
0143P KC2017 11 17.21228 11 42 59.81 -02 37 12.2 18.7 N A77
0143P KC2017 11 17.22284 11 43 00.68 -02 37 18.0 18.9 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 -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 18x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments Tail 20" PA= 300 Observation submission date 2017 Nov 17 07h14m35s Observation modification date 2018 Jan 31 21h22m24s