38P/Stephan-Oterma (Record n° 19863)
Orbital period : 37.70 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Oct 12 08h52 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.7 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.7 " r (dist/Sun) 1.633 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.093 AU Right ascension 06 23 47.66 h m s Declination +14 04 13.1 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/5 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m2 : 6.7"
COM Aperture radius for m1 : 0.56'
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.10.12 12:44:08
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0038P C2018 10 12.36934 06 23 47.66 +14 04 13.1 13.6 N W96
0038P C2018 10 12.37383 06 23 48.27 +14 04 16.4 13.7 N W96
0038P C2018 10 12.37832 06 23 48.94 +14 04 19.8 13.7 N W96
Instrument Marcon RC 400 Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2000 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5 Camera APOGEE ALTA Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 13x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.12 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Observation submission date 2018 Oct 12 12h47m13s Observation modification date 2018 Oct 12 16h11m12s