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37P/Forbes

Orbital period : 6.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Aug 11 23h55 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.3
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter1.5 '
Tail length0.28 °
Tail position angle (PA)239 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.872 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.980 AU
Right ascension23 40 53.78 h m s
Declination+05 25 03.0 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.45 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport 37P 2018/08/12
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0037P         C2018 08 11.99664 23 40 53.78 +05 25 03.0          17.2 N      K97
0037P         C2018 08 11.99815 23 40 53.72 +05 25 03.7          17.3 N      K97
0037P         C2018 08 12.01008 23 40 53.31 +05 25 07.9          17.2 N      K97
0037P         C2018 08 12.02946 23 40 52.61 +05 25 14.9          17.3 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.45
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1490 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.45
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time2760 s
Exposure details23x120s
Air mass1.5
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresIRIS
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Aug 12 12h45m32s
Observation modification date2018 Aug 12 12h51m07s

(Record n° 19469)

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