46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 19864)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Oct 12 06h06 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.7 Aperture radius used for m1 0.56 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.5 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 6.7 " r (dist/Sun) 1.332 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.397 AU Right ascension 01 57 09.88 h m s Declination -29 28 11.9 ° ' " 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 m2 : 6.7"
COM Aperture radius for m1 : 0.56'
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.10.12 12:44:08
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P C2018 10 12.25450 01 57 09.88 -29 28 11.9 14.5 N W96
0046P C2018 10 12.26571 01 57 09.91 -29 28 22.1 12.7 T W96
0046P C2018 10 12.27842 01 57 09.91 -29 28 34.2 14.5 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 33x1mn 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 (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Observation submission date 2018 Oct 12 12h47m13s Observation modification date 2018 Oct 12 16h07m46s