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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Orbital period : 6.54 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2011 Jun 01 22h44 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)19.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.992 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.125 AU
Right ascension15 46 04.92 h m s
Declination+14 02 57.7 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.F. Soulier
MEA J.F. Soulier
TEL 0.255-m f/3.6 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2011.06.01 and 02
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-B1.0
0021P        KC2011 06 01.94707 15 46 04.92 +14 02 57.7          19.4 N      C10
0021P        KC2011 06 01.96229 15 46 03.89 +14 03 03.5          19.5 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)254 mm
Instrument focale length900 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.6
CameraST7-XMEd
SensorCCD
Sensor size6.9 x 4.6 mm2
Sensor pixels number765 x 510
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountPERL-VIXEN
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details15 X 120s
Seeing4
Moon elongation141 °
Air mass1.21
Observatory MPC codeC10
Location77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-B1.0
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.04 "/pix
Image processingPRISMV8 APE DDP FC
Observation submission date2011 Jun 04 15h41m34s
Observation modification date2011 Jun 04 15h58m54s

(Record n° 3623)

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