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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Nov 26 19h21 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)10.3
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12.2
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m210.8 "
Afrho45 cm
Afrho error2 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttp://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 1.080 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.144 AU
Right ascension02 22 50.18 h m s
Declination-24 43 28.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.28-m f/2.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK NEOCP 2018.11.27 07:54:57
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0046P         C2018 11 26.80591 02 22 50.18 -24 43 28.3          12.2 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 26.80591 02 22 50.24 -24 43 30.1          10.3 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig7
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)280 mm
Instrument focale length616 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.2
Filter(s)None
Cameraasi294MCpro
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number4144x2822
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
Mount10MICRON
Exposure details3X60S
Seeing5
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.33
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.54 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfrho 5000km
Observation submission date2018 Nov 27 07h57m21s
Observation modification date2018 Nov 27 08h31m58s

(Record n° 20073)

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