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143P/Kowal-Mrkos

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 deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m26.4 "
Tail length0.0056 °
Tail position angle (PA)300 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.786 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.188 AU
Right ascension11 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 configurationConfig1
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)L
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details18x120s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.8 "/pix
Remarks or commentsTail 20" PA= 300
Observation submission date2017 Nov 17 07h14m35s
Observation modification date2018 Jan 31 21h22m24s

(Record n° 18509)

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