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C/2018 W2 (Africano)

Perihelion distance : 1.46 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 117 °
Eccentricity : 1

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2019 Jul 22 02h03 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)13.6
Aperture radius for m10.4 '
Magnitude (MPC m2)16.1
Magnitude standard deviation0.3
Aperture radius for m25.8 "
Coma diameter1.75 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.592 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.957 AU
Right ascension67.5755 °
Declination+59.53344 °
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@free.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
ACK A77 2019.07.22 05:26:10
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
COM CCD ATIK 460EX No filter
COM Photometry aperture radius used for m2 = 5.8 arcsec (7 pixels, 0.83 arcsec/pix)
COM Photometry aperture radius used for m1 = 0.4 arcmin (30 pixels, 0.83 arcsec/pix)
NET UCAC-4
    CK18W020  C2019 07 22.08576 04 30 18.12 +59 32 00.4          15.8 V      A77
    CK18W020  C2019 07 22.09973 04 30 17.91 +59 31 58.0          16.3 V      A77
    CK18W020  C2019 07 22.11534 04 30 17.65 +59 31 54.2          13.6 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
FilterNone
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade-MCMT-TDM
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details10x60s
Air mass1.7
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.82 "/pix
Observation submission date2019 Jul 22 05h39m02s
Observation modification date2019 Jul 22 06h38m58s

(Record n° 20835)

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