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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 16 23h08 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 1.056 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.078 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 number3520x4656
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountSW EQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time1800 s
Exposure details60x30s
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)3.5
Seeing4
LocationTautavel 66720 France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.3 "/pix
Image processingMaxim;DSS;Photoshop
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2018/12/la-comete-46p/wirtanen-le-16-decembre-2018.html
Remarks or commentsvent,pluie et nuages pendant la prise de vue
Observation submission date2018 Dec 27 13h55m37s

(Record n° 20259)

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