38P/Stephan-Oterma (Record n° 20208)
Orbital period : 37.70 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Dec 21 07h34 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.7 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 6.7 " r (dist/Sun) 1.667 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.767 AU Right ascension 08 31 04.61 h m s Declination +36 47 45.9 ° ' " 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"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.12.21 11:50:33
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR2
0038P C2018 12 21.31519 08 31 04.61 +36 47 45.9 13.7 G W96
0038P C2018 12 21.32394 08 31 04.87 +36 47 58.7 13.7 G W96
0038P C2018 12 21.32836 08 31 05.03 +36 48 05.0 13.7 G 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 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 Gaia DR2
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.12 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (levels, crop) Observation submission date 2018 Dec 21 11h53m24s Observation modification date 2018 Dec 21 12h49m55s