21P/Giacobini-Zinner (Record n° 19542)
Orbital period : 6.54 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Aug 21 22h33 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.5 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 10 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 260 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.054 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.456 AU Right ascension 03 41 36.79 h m s Declination +60 23 02.0 ° ' " 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 21P 2018/08/21
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0021P C2018 08 21.93944 03 41 36.79 +60 23 02.0 11.5 N K97
0021P C2018 08 21.94532 03 41 40.19 +60 22 43.2 11.5 N K97
0021P C2018 08 21.95017 03 41 42.98 +60 22 27.7 11.5 N K97
Instrumental configuration Config1 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 -10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Exposure total time 660 s Exposure details 33x20s Moon phase 31 ° Moon elongation 130 ° Air mass 1.7 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: 15'10" en PA 260° et 9'18" perpendiculairement.
Probable petits jets vers l'avant du noyau.
Longueur de la queue > 22'
Observation submission date 2018 Aug 22 13h08m11s Observation modification date 2018 Aug 22 13h29m01s