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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 Dec 14 17h30 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)8.7
Aperture radius for m11.32 '
Magnitude (MPC m2)10.8
Magnitude standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius for m213.2 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.055 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.079 AU
Right ascension56.32846 °
Declination+15.46983 °
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 NEOCP 2018.12.14 20:06:59
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 12 14.72911 03 45 18.83 +15 28 11.4          10.8 V      A77
0046P         C2018 12 14.74750 03 45 27.52 +15 32 19.1          10.8 V      A77
0046P         C2018 12 14.77221 03 45 39.13 +15 37 51.3           8.7 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig6
Instrument typeRefractor
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)60 mm
Instrument focale length348 mm
Instrument focale/diameter5.8
FilterNone
CameraATIK460ex
SensorCCD
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details2x20s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.64 "/pix
Observation submission date2018 Dec 14 20h11m30s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 14 20h15m54s

(Record n° 20172)

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