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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 25 18h33 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Magnitude (MPC m2)11.5
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m210.8 "
Afrho57 cm
Afrho error2 cm
Afrho URL for more infohttp://cara.uai.it/
r (dist/Sun) 1.068 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.093 AU
Right ascension86.69788 °
Declination+49.76806 °
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@free.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.28-m f/2.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK A77 2018.12.26 08:08:19
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
0046P         C2018 12 25.77323 05 46 47.49 +49 46 05.0          11.5 R      A77
0046P         C2018 12 25.79645 05 47 04.95 +49 48 48.1          11.6 R      A77
0046P         C2018 12 25.79821 05 47 06.43 +49 49 00.7          11.5 R      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig7
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)280 mm
Instrument focale length616 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.2
FilterNone
Cameraasi294MCpro
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number4144x2822
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
Mount10MICRON
Exposure details7x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.54 "/pix
Remarks or commentsmeasures R Channel - Afrho 10000 km
Observation submission date2018 Dec 26 08h15m34s
Observation modification date2018 Dec 28 07h52m14s

(Record n° 20236)

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