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64P/Swift-Gehrels

Orbital period : 9.40 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 17 21h07 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 1.486 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.611 AU
Instrumental configurationConfig3
InstrumentSW Quattro
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)IDAS LPS
Camera ZWO ASI 1600mcc
SensorCCD
Sensor size17.7x13.4 mm2
Sensor pixels number4656x3520
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountSW EQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time2040 s
Exposure details17x2mn
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)2.5
Seeing2
LocationTautavel 66720 France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.3 "/pix
Image processing Maxim;DSS;Photoshop
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2018/12/comete-64p/swift-gehrels-le-17-decembre-2018.html
Observation submission date2018 Dec 27 13h32m28s

(Record n° 20256)

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