Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Dec 17 20h03 UT by Cyrille Calvet
(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )
| r (dist/Sun) | 1.057 AU | d (dist/Earth) | 0.077 AU | Instrumental configuration | Config3 | Instrument | SW Quattro | Instrument type | Newton | Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) | 300 mm | Instrument focale length | 1200 mm | Instrument focale/diameter | 4 | Filter(s) | IDAS LPS | Camera | ZWO ASI 1600mcc | Sensor | CCD | Sensor size | 17.7x13.4 mm2 | Sensor pixels number | 4656x3520 | Sensor temperature | -25 °C | Binning | 2x2 | Mount | SW EQ8 | Motorization | Yes | Autoguide | No | Exposure total time | 3000 s | Exposure details | 100x30s | Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) | 2 | Seeing | 2 | Location | Tautavel 66720 France | Resulting picture sampling (scale) | 1.3 "/pix | Image processing | Maxim;DSS;Photoshop | URL for more information or pictures | http://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2018/12/la-comete-46p/wirtanen-le-17-decembre-2018.html | Observation submission date | 2018 Dec 27 13h45m31s |
(Record n° 20258)