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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 18 00h31 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)16.1
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m27.5 "
Coma diameter3 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.524 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.595 AU
Right ascension26.63004 °
Declination-22.42161 °
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.45 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport 46P 2018/09/18
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 09 18.02138 01 46 31.21 -22 25 17.8          16.0 N      K97
0046P         C2018 09 18.03061 01 46 31.53 -22 25 27.1          16.1 N      K97
0046P         C2018 09 18.04292 01 46 32.01 -22 25 39.3          16.1 N      K97
0046P         C2018 09 18.05677 01 46 32.50 -22 25 53.3          16.1 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.45
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1490 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.45
FilterL
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time3480 s
Exposure details29x120s
Air mass3.2
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Sep 18 11h16m06s
Observation modification date2018 Sep 18 11h17m51s

(Record n° 19741)

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