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46P/Wirtanen

Orbital period : 5.44 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Nov 13 21h42 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)10.7
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12.4
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m210.8 "
Afrho43 cm
Afrho error1 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttp://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 1.130 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.210 AU
Right ascension02 05 08.07 h m s
Declination-31 55 20.2 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.28-m f/2.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK A77 NEOCP 2018 11 17
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
0046P         C2018 11 13.90398 02 05 08.07 -31 55 20.2          12.4 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 13.91354 02 05 08.35 -31 55 09.9          12.4 R      A77
0046P         C2018 11 13.92363 02 05 08.53 -31 55 02.3          10.7 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig7
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)280 mm
Instrument focale length616 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.2
Filter(s)None
Cameraasi294MCpro
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number4144x2822
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning1x1
Mount10MICRON
Exposure total time180 s
Exposure details3X60S
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.54 "/pix
Remarks or commentsafrho R channel 10000km
Observation submission date2018 Nov 17 22h23m52s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 19 18h34m54s

(Record n° 20014)

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