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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Oct 23 23h11 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier


(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)14
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m26.6 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.253 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.326 AU
Right ascension01 58 47.67 h m s
Declination-32 06 34.4 ° ' "
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 2018.10.23 and 24
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P        KC2018 10 23.96573 01 58 47.67 -32 06 34.4          13.9 N      L27
0046P        KC2018 10 23.98659 01 58 47.62 -32 06 47.7          14.0 N      L27
0046P        KC2018 10 24.00465 01 58 47.50 -32 06 57.2          14.0 N      L27
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)None
CameraATIK 314L+
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountAstronomy Equipment AEb
AutoguideNo
Exposure details60 x 60s
Observatory MPC codeL27
LocationDauban (04)
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.65 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Oct 24 09h44m13s
Observation modification date2018 Oct 24 10h44m25s

(Record n° 19934)

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