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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Dec 31 20h59 UT by Cyrille Calvet


(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )

r (dist/Sun) 3.447 AU
d (dist/Earth) 4.377 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 1600 Mcc
SensorCCD
Sensor size17.7x13.4 mm2
Sensor pixels number4656x3520
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountSW EQ8
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time4500 s
Exposure details150x30s
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)4.5
Seeing2
LocationTautavel 66720 France
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.3 "/pix
Image processingMaxim;DSS;Photoshop
URL for more information or pictureshttp://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2019/01/comete-46p/wirtanen-le-31-decembre-2018.html
Observation submission date2019 Jan 03 18h25m00s
Observation modification date2019 Jan 03 18h26m44s

(Record n° 20314)

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