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37P/Forbes

Orbital period : 6.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Sep 08 21h30 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.3
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter1.8 '
Tail position angle (PA)230 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.012 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.017 AU
Right ascension23 17 15.60 h m s
Declination+06 28 17.8 ° ' "
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 2018/09/08
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0037P         C2018 09 08.89600 23 17 15.60 +06 28 17.8          17.2 N      K97
0037P         C2018 09 08.91460 23 17 14.46 +06 28 16.6          17.3 N      K97
0037P         C2018 09 08.92842 23 17 13.64 +06 28 15.9          17.3 N      K97
0037P         C2018 09 08.94232 23 17 12.82 +06 28 15.2          17.4 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-10 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time3240 s
Exposure details27x120s
Air mass1.5
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Sep 09 21h12m46s
Observation modification date2018 Sep 09 21h15m27s

(Record n° 19652)

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