C/2018 W2 (Africano) (Record n° 20868)
Perihelion distance : 1.46 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 117 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2019 Aug 06 02h12 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " Coma diameter 4 ' r (dist/Sun) 1.519 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.633 AU Right ascension 65.49692 ° Declination +58.68897 ° 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 MPCReport file updated 2019.08.06 06:22:09
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 08 06.09161 04 21 59.26 +58 41 20.3 16.4 V A77
CK18W020 C2019 08 06.10400 04 21 58.45 +58 41 17.8 16.5 V A77
CK18W020 C2019 08 06.13141 04 21 56.74 +58 41 12.4 16.6 V A77
CK18W020 C2019 08 06.13635 04 21 56.43 +58 41 11.3 16.7 V 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 Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade-MCMT-TDM Exposure details 5x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2019 Aug 06 06h29m38s Observation modification date 2019 Aug 06 07h05m26s