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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2014 Feb 11 07h17 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)21
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m23.4 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.595 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.225 AU
Right ascension14 49 54.81 h m s
Declination-03 24 02.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.02.11 
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
0046P        KC2014 02 11.30371 14 49 54.81 -03 24 02.3          21.1 N      W96
0046P        KC2014 02 11.33577 14 49 55.15 -03 23 58.3          20.9 N      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length3200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter8
CameraQHY9
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-30 °C
Binning2x2
MountPARAMOUNT
AutoguideYes
Exposure details30 X 120s
Moon elongation120 °
Air mass1.82
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationChili
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.69 "/pix
Observation submission date2014 Feb 11 11h18m26s
Observation modification date2014 Feb 11 11h19m40s

(Record n° 11074)

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