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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2019 Mar 23 20h55 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter3.5 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.644 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.814 AU
Right ascension09 52 38.04 h m s
Declination+38 10 09.9 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.45 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport 46P 2019/03/23
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2019 03 23.87143 09 52 38.04 +38 10 09.9          17.3 N      K97
0046P         C2019 03 23.87753 09 52 38.26 +38 10 02.3          17.5 N      K97
0046P         C2019 03 23.87876 09 52 38.31 +38 10 01.0          17.6 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.45
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1490 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.45
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time3330 s
Exposure details37x90s
Moon phase20 °
Moon elongation83 °
Air mass1.0
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astro-patditz.monsite-orange.fr/
Observation submission date2019 Mar 24 15h00m54s
Observation modification date2019 Mar 24 15h09m33s

(Record n° 20630)

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