46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 20340)
Orbital period : 5.44 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2019 Jan 03 00h16 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 6.4 Aperture radius used for m1 9.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.3 Aperture radius used for m2 6.0 " Coma diameter 19 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 4 r (dist/Sun) 1.093 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.132 AU Right ascension 07 25 33.6 h m s Declination +58 27 39 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 0 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 107.5 s Exposure details 23x2.5s+7x4s+11x2s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 4 Air mass 1 Location Boulonville (28) Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, division par flats sur nuages, alignement (étoiles par séquence de 1min et réalignement sur noyau cométaire pour les 4 séquences), retrait gradient, balance des couleurs Observation submission date 2019 Jan 07 13h46m15s