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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 10 02h56 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9.5
Aperture radius used for m10.56 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)11.3
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m26.7 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.056 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.087 AU
Right ascension03 12 56.54 h m s
Declination-00 11 59.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD W96
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/5 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK W96 2018.12.10
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 12 10.12195 03 12 56.54 -00 11 59.3          11.2 N      W96
0046P         C2018 12 10.15083 03 13 05.92 -00 06 44.4           9.5 T      W96
0046P         C2018 12 10.15588 03 13 07.22 -00 05 52.0          11.3 N      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length2000 mm
Instrument focale/diameter5
Filter(s)None
CameraAPOGEE
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA 200
AutoguideNo
Exposure details30 x 10s
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSan Pedro d'Atacama Chili
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.12 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Dec 10 04h58m15s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 10 16h08m44s

(Record n° 20144)

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