45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (Record n° 25575)
Orbital period : 5.33 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2022 May 20 20h59 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 8.2 Aperture radius used for m1 1.3 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.2 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 1.7 ' Afrho 1610 cm Afrho error 190 cm r (dist/Sun) 0.726 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.526 AU Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T407 F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 8.12 s Exposure details 65x1/8s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Seeing 4 Moon phase 45 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 11 Location Magny-les-hameaux Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement une étoile, somme, retrait gradient (alignement 2 séries) Remarks or comments Afrho couche R;
mR=8.7, mV=7.4 Observation submission date 2022 May 22 23h40m08s