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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Nov 27 19h53 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)10.1
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m210.8 "
Coma diameter35 '
Afrho48 cm
Afrho error1 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttp://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 1.077 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.139 AU
Right ascension02 25 10.28 h m s
Declination-23 41 27.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.28-m f/2.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK NEOCP 2018.11.28 07:18:38
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0046P         C2018 11 27.82873 02 25 10.28 -23 41 27.3          12.0 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 27.83227 02 25 10.74 -23 41 11.6          12.0 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 27.83870 02 25 11.43 -23 40 48.3          10.1 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig7
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)280 mm
Instrument focale length616 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.2
Filter(s)None
Cameraasi294MCpro
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number4144x2822
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
Exposure details5x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.33
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.54 "/pix
Remarks or commentsafrho R channel 10000km
Observation submission date2018 Nov 28 07h27m04s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 19 17h56m08s

(Record n° 20079)

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