38P/Stephan-Oterma (Record n° 19628)
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 m1 0.465 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.7 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 13.2 " Tail position angle
(PA) 250 ° Afrho 260 cm Afrho error 5 cm Afrho URL for more info http://cara.uai.it/ r (dist/Sun) 1.784 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.471 AU Right ascension 04 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 configuration Config1 Instrument type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 800 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter(s) r' Camera ST2000XM Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT Exposure details 25x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.86 "/pix Remarks or comments Tail 1.5' PA=250 Observation submission date 2018 Sep 07 08h48m28s Observation modification date 2018 Sep 07 10h02m58s