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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 25 22h22 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)11.8
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter16.7 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.068 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.093 AU
Right ascension05 48 45.16 h m s
Declination+50 04 11.9 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.45 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport 46P 2018/12/25
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 12 25.93180 05 48 45.16 +50 04 11.9          11.8 N      K97
0046P         C2018 12 25.93282 05 48 45.92 +50 04 18.8          11.8 N      K97
0046P         C2018 12 25.93384 05 48 46.66 +50 04 25.6          11.8 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.45
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1490 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.45
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time195 s
Exposure details13x15s
Moon phase25 °
Moon elongation54 °
Air mass1.0
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astro-patditz.monsite-orange.fr/
Observation submission date2018 Dec 26 11h10m58s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 31 14h37m21s

(Record n° 20239)

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