46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 10374)
Perihelion distance : 1.06 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 12 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.66
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2013 Oct 31 04h45 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 11.3 " r (dist/Sun) 1.759 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.520 AU Right ascension 189.23854 ° Declination +4.91158 ° 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 type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 300 mm Instrument focale length 1140 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.8 Camera ST8 XME Sensor CCD Sensor size 13.8 x 9.2 mm2 Sensor pixels number 1530 x 1020 Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount F60 Autoguide Yes Exposure details 32 x 60s Seeing 3 Moon elongation 15 ° Air mass 4.70 Observatory MPC code C10 Location Seine et Marne Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.62 "/pix Observation submission date 2013 Oct 31 16h01m27s Observation modification date 2013 Oct 31 20h32m03s