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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2013 Oct 31 04h45 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.9
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m211.3 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.759 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.520 AU
Right ascension12 36 57.25 h m s
Declination+04 54 41.7 ° ' "
MPC report
COD C10
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.30-m f/3.8 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2013.10.31
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P        KC2013 10 31.19785 12 36 57.25 +04 54 41.7          17.8 N      C10
0046P        KC2013 10 31.21258 12 36 59.01 +04 54 31.6          17.9 N      C10
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)300 mm
Instrument focale length1140 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.8
CameraST8 XME
SensorCCD
Sensor size13.8 x 9.2 mm2
Sensor pixels number1530 x 1020
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning1x1
MountF60
AutoguideYes
Exposure details32 x 60s
Seeing3
Moon elongation15 °
Air mass4.70
Observatory MPC codeC10
LocationSeine et Marne
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.62 "/pix
Observation submission date2013 Oct 31 16h01m27s
Observation modification date2013 Oct 31 20h32m03s

(Record n° 10374)

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