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38P/Stephan-Oterma

Orbital period : 37.70 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Sep 07 03h47 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)13.3
Aperture radius used for m10.465 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)14.7
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m213.2 "
Tail position angle (PA)250 °
Afrho260 cm
Afrho error5 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttp://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 1.784 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.471 AU
Right ascension04 57 51.52 h m s
Declination+08 10 31.5 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.09.07 08:40:41
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0038P        KC2018 09 07.15759 04 57 51.52 +08 10 31.5          14.7 R      A77
0038P        KC2018 09 07.16163 04 57 52.02 +08 10 33.3          14.8 R      A77
0038P        KC2018 09 07.16560 04 57 52.65 +08 10 35.6          14.5 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)r'
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure details25x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.86 "/pix
Remarks or commentsTail 1.5' PA=250
Observation submission date2018 Sep 07 08h48m28s
Observation modification date2018 Sep 07 10h02m58s

(Record n° 19628)

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