62P/Tsuchinshan (Record n° 28044)
Orbital period : 6.16 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Jan 05 05h59 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 9.4 Aperture radius used for m1 3.5 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.4 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 6 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 3 r (dist/Sun) 1.272 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.515 AU Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm 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 6 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 19.5 s Exposure details 78x1/4s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Seeing 2 Moon phase 135 ° Moon elongation 50 ° Air mass 1.4 Location Versailles Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning,flat,alignement,somme,retrait gradient Remarks or comments ciel de ville, fond de ciel limitant la taille de la coma à 6' Observation submission date 2024 Jan 05 18h17m10s Observation modification date 2024 Feb 06 18h47m52s