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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Oct 05 00h31 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)12.7
Aperture radius used for m10.93 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.1
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m213 "
Afrho41 cm
Afrho error1 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttp://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 1.386 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.448 AU
Right ascension01 55 16.04 h m s
Declination-27 25 16.0 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.10.05 10:07:16
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P        KC2018 10 05.02146 01 55 16.04 -27 25 16.0          15.1 R      A77
0046P        KC2018 10 05.03179 01 55 16.21 -27 25 27.1          15.0 R      A77
0046P        KC2018 10 05.04358 01 55 16.39 -27 25 39.9          12.7 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)r
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure details50x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.86 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfRho 5000 km
Observation submission date2018 Oct 05 10h22m51s
Observation modification date2018 Oct 05 11h05m28s

(Record n° 19832)

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