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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

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 deviation0.5
Aperture radius used for m26.4 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.309 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.230 AU
Right ascension18 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 configurationConfig1
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)L
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details7x100s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.8 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Mar 24 06h44m41s
Observation modification date2018 Mar 24 07h08m26s

(Record n° 18966)

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