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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Sep 14 08h04 UT by Thierry Noel


(Copyright Thierry Noel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m26.7 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.558 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.635 AU
Right ascension01 43 50.55 h m s
Declination-21 24 37.7 ° ' "
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/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m1 m2 : 0.54' 6.4"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.09.14 17:43:00
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 09 14.33583 01 43 50.55 -21 24 37.7          16.0 N      W96
0046P         C2018 09 14.34928 01 43 51.04 -21 24 50.3          16.0 N      W96
0046P         C2018 09 14.36496 01 43 51.70 -21 25 05.4          16.0 N      W96
InstrumentMarcon RC 400
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length2160 mm
Instrument focale/diameter5.4
CameraAPOGEE ALTA
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA 200
AutoguideNo
Exposure details41x1mn
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSan Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.12 "/pix
Image processingPrism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (levels, ddp, crop)
Observation submission date2018 Sep 14 17h53m04s
Observation modification date2018 Oct 01 09h14m03s

(Record n° 19703)

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