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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 08 20h15 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 1.057 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.093 AU
Instrumental configurationConfig3
InstrumentSW-Quattro
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)IDAS LPS
CameraZWO-ASI-1600MCC
SensorCCD
Sensor size17.7x13.4 mm2
Sensor pixels number 4656x3520
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountSW-EQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time3950 s
Exposure details132x30 sec
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)2.5
Seeing3
LocationTautavel-66720-France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.3 "/pix
Image processing Maxim;DSS;Photoshop
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2018/12/comete-46p/wirtanen-le-8-decembre-2018.html
Observation submission date2018 Dec 09 23h50m13s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 09 23h53m26s

(Record n° 20142)

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