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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 Aug 06 02h12 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Magnitude (MPC m2)16.6
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m25.8 "
Coma diameter4 '
r (dist/Sun) 1.519 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.633 AU
Right ascension65.49692 °
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 configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
FilterNone
CameraAtik460ex
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade-MCMT-TDM
Exposure details5x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.83 "/pix
Observation submission date2019 Aug 06 06h29m38s
Observation modification date2019 Aug 06 07h05m26s

(Record n° 20868)

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