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46P/Wirtanen

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 Sep 15 07h02 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch


(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.9
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m26.7 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.549 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.625 AU
Right ascension26.14092 °
Declination-21.66758 °
MPC report
COD W96
CON Jean-Gabriel Bosch [JGBosch@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, J.-G. Bosch
MEA J.-G.Bosch
TEL 0.4-m f/5 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.09.15 06:57:36
AC2 JGBosch@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 09 15.29271 01 44 33.82 -21 40 03.3          15.9 N      W96
0046P         C2018 09 15.31948 01 44 34.89 -21 40 29.3          15.9 N      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length2000 mm
Instrument focale/diameter5
CameraAPOGEE ALTA
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-25 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA200
AutoguideNo
Exposure details40x1mn
Air mass1.2
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSan Pedro Atacama
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.17 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Sep 15 14h17m27s
Observation modification date2018 Sep 15 14h45m28s

(Record n° 19710)

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