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66P/du Toit

Orbital period : 14.95 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Sep 11 00h37 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.9
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter0.8 '
Tail length0.044 °
Tail position angle (PA)232 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.947 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.984 AU
Right ascension00 48 50.74 h m s
Declination-12 29 55.0 ° ' "
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 66P 2018/09/11
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0066P         C2018 09 11.02583 00 48 50.74 -12 29 55.0          18.0 N      K97
0066P         C2018 09 11.03513 00 48 49.71 -12 29 51.3          17.7 N      K97
0066P         C2018 09 11.07059 00 48 46.33 -12 29 36.7          18.1 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 time3480 s
Exposure details29x120s
Air mass2.1
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Sep 11 15h06m39s
Observation modification date2018 Sep 11 17h11m13s

(Record n° 19671)

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