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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2019 Jan 15 22h40 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 1.145 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.200 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 number4656X3520
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountSW EQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time300 s
Exposure details1x5mn
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)3.5
Seeing4
LocationTautavel 66720 France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.3 "/pix
Image processingCCDsoft/MAXIMdl/DSS/Photoshop
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2019/01/comete-46p/wirtanen-le-15-janvier-2019.html
Observation submission date2019 Jan 16 21h59m22s

(Record n° 20417)

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