21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 18966)
Orbital period : 6.54 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Mar 24 03h57 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 19.6 m2 standard deviation 0.5 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 2.309 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.230 AU Right ascension 18 44 05.53 h m s Declination +06 08 10.9 ° ' " 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 2018.03.24 06:39:19
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0021P KC2018 03 24.16442 18 44 05.53 +06 08 10.9 20.1 N A77
0021P KC2018 03 24.17019 18 44 05.86 +06 08 18.0 19.1 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 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 7x100s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Mar 24 06h44m41s Observation modification date 2018 Mar 24 07h08m26s