C/2018 W2 (Africano) (Record n° 20835)
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 m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.1 Magnitude standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " Coma diameter 1.75 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.592 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.957 AU Right ascension 67.5755 ° 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 configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1120 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.8 Filter None Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade-MCMT-TDM Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 10x60s Air mass 1.7 Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.82 "/pix Observation submission date 2019 Jul 22 05h39m02s Observation modification date 2019 Jul 22 06h38m58s