46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 19526)
Perihelion distance : 1.06 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 12 °
Orbital period : 5.44 years
Eccentricity : 0.66
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Aug 20 03h16 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.6 " r (dist/Sun) 1.771 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.936 AU Right ascension 19.8885 ° Declination -16.08747 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.08.20
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P KC2018 08 20.13577 01 19 33.24 -16 05 14.9 17.1 N L27
0046P KC2018 08 20.14723 01 19 33.96 -16 05 21.4 17.2 N L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 800 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter None Camera ATIK 314L+ Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Astronomy Equipment AEb Autoguide No Exposure details 25 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.65 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Aug 20 09h32m40s Observation modification date 2018 Aug 20 15h56m06s