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46P/Wirtanen

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 m18.0 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12.1
Aperture radius used for m26.0 "
Coma diameter16 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)3
r (dist/Sun) 1.064 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.112 AU
Right ascension02 43 40.3 h m s
Declination-14 59 10 ° ' "
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentDobson T407mm F/D 4.3
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)407 mm
Instrument focale length1750 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4.29
Filter(s)None
CameraSony Alpha 7s
SensorDC
Sensor size36x24 mm2
Sensor pixels number4240*2832
Sensor temperature10 °C
Binning2x2
MountDobson sur table equatoriale JMI
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time28 s
Exposure details14*2sec
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)6
Seeing3
Air mass2
LocationBoulonville
Reference stars catalogNOMAD
Used softwaresIRIS
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingalignement somme retrait gradient
Remarks or commentscoma de 45' aux jumelles (champ image de 40' ici...), impossible de tout masquer pour le retrait du gradient
Observation submission date2018 Dec 04 19h23m49s

(Record n° 20116)

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