46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 19798)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Sep 28 06h32 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.7 " r (dist/Sun) 1.442 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.504 AU Right ascension 01 52 31.22 h m s Declination -25 24 08.2 ° ' " 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 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m1 m2 : 0.54' 6.4"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.09.28 12:14:04
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P C2018 09 28.27232 01 52 31.22 -25 24 08.2 14.7 N W96
0046P C2018 09 28.30211 01 52 31.83 -25 24 40.0 14.6 N W96
0046P C2018 09 28.33054 01 52 32.50 -25 25 10.1 14.6 N W96
Instrument Marcon RC 400 Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2000 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5 Camera APOGEE ALTA Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 79x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.12 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (levels, ddp, crop) Observation submission date 2018 Sep 28 12h21m11s Observation modification date 2018 Oct 01 09h09m54s