21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 19031)
Orbital period : 6.54 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Apr 15 02h38 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 2.114 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.837 AU Right ascension 19 17 38.46 h m s Declination +12 35 59.8 ° ' " 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 2018.04.15 07:47:30
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0021P KC2018 04 15.10942 19 17 38.46 +12 35 59.8 16.8 N A77
0021P KC2018 04 15.12094 19 17 39.50 +12 36 13.7 17.0 N A77
0021P KC2018 04 15.13242 19 17 40.54 +12 36 28.3 17.2 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 27x100s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Apr 15 10h47m19s Observation modification date 2018 Apr 15 10h49m36s