46P/Wirtanen (Record n° 20102)
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 Dec 01 19h58 UT by Francois KugelComa Total magnitude (m1) 9.5 Aperture radius for m1 1.32 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 11.8 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 13.2 " r (dist/Sun) 1.068 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.120 AU Right ascension 39.06542 ° Declination -18.58386 ° MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.06-m f/5.8 refractor + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.12.02 08:53:35
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P KC2018 12 01.83215 02 36 15.70 -18 35 01.9 11.8 V A77
0046P KC2018 12 01.84694 02 36 18.25 -18 33 41.8 11.8 V A77
0046P KC2018 12 01.87366 02 36 22.75 -18 31 15.8 9.5 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config5 Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 60 mm Instrument focale length 348 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.8 Filter None Camera ATIK460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Observation submission date 2018 Dec 02 08h56m36s