46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 20116)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Dec 03 23h31 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 7.0 Aperture radius used for m1 8.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.0 " Coma diameter 16 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 3 r (dist/Sun) 1.064 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.112 AU Right ascension 02 43 40.3 h m s Declination -14 59 10 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson T407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony Alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 28 s Exposure details 14*2sec Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 3 Air mass 2 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog NOMAD Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing alignement somme retrait gradient Remarks or comments coma de 45' aux jumelles (champ image de 40' ici...), impossible de tout masquer pour le retrait du gradient Observation submission date 2018 Dec 04 19h23m49s