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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Nov 17 21h56 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)10.6
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12.2
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m210.8 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.112 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.189 AU
Right ascension02 08 44.02 h m s
Declination-30 34 44.6 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.28-m f/2.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK NEOCP 2018.11.18 09:03:23
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0046P         C2018 11 17.91398 02 08 44.02 -30 34 44.6          12.2 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 17.91682 02 08 44.18 -30 34 40.8          12.2 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 17.92128 02 08 44.31 -30 34 33.0          12.3 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig7
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)280 mm
Instrument focale length616 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.2
Filter(s)None
Cameraasi294MCpro
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
Exposure details6x20s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.54 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Nov 18 09h30m53s
Observation modification date2018 Nov 18 09h56m13s

(Record n° 20016)

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