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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Oct 03 22h17 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.3
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter5.5 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.402 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.463 AU
Right ascension01 54 53.94 h m s
Declination-27 05 34.0 ° ' "
MPC report
COD 221
CON Friedhelm Hund [FriedhelmHund@gmail.com]
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.50-m f/3 reflector+CCD
ACK MPCReport 46P 2018/10/03
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 10 03.92826 01 54 53.94 -27 05 34.0          15.3 V      221
0046P         C2018 10 03.93128 01 54 53.99 -27 05 36.9          15.3 V      221
0046P         C2018 10 03.93285 01 54 54.02 -27 05 38.8          15.3 V      221
0046P         C2018 10 03.93904 01 54 54.09 -27 05 45.5          15.2 V      221
InstrumentT500 F/3 Keller
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)500 mm
Instrument focale length1500 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-5 °C
Binning2x2
MountLiebscher
Exposure total time75 s
Exposure details15x5s
Air mass1.1
Observatory MPC code221
LocationHakos Namibia
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.25 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astro-patditz.monsite-orange.fr/
Remarks or commentsObservation depuis observatoire IAS Hakos en Namibie
Observation submission date2018 Oct 22 12h39m02s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 31 14h47m47s

(Record n° 19927)

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