21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 19506)
Orbital period : 6.54 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Aug 15 20h26 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.7 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 11 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 252 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.080 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.493 AU Right ascension 02 38 03.87 h m s Declination +64 37 59.4 ° ' " 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 21P 2018/08/15
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0021P C2018 08 15.85166 02 38 03.87 +64 37 59.4 11.7 N K97
0021P C2018 08 15.85426 02 38 05.64 +64 37 55.0 11.7 N K97
0021P C2018 08 15.85620 02 38 06.90 +64 37 51.7 11.7 N K97
0021P C2018 08 15.85910 02 38 08.89 +64 37 46.7 11.7 N K97
Instrument T200 F/D 7.45 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1490 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.45 Filter(s) L Camera ATIK 460 EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 12.5x10.0 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -12 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Exposure total time 620 s Exposure details 31x20s Moon phase 135 ° Moon elongation 118 ° Air mass 1.9 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Remarks or comments coma ovale: 14' en PA 253° et 9' perpendiculairement Observation submission date 2018 Aug 16 10h57m40s Observation modification date 2018 Aug 16 11h04m54s