C/2018 W2 (Africano) (Record n° 21037)
Perihelion distance : 1.46 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 117 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2019 Sep 21 02h09 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.4 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.7 Magnitude standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 1.471 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.537 AU Right ascension 12.30821 ° Declination +32.56675 ° 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 file updated 2019.09.21 07:50:00
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
CK18W020 C2019 09 21.08978 00 49 13.97 +32 34 00.3 14.4 V A77
CK18W020 C2019 09 21.09490 00 49 11.24 +32 33 15.3 15.0 V A77
CK18W020 C2019 09 21.10003 00 49 08.48 +32 32 30.1 12.4 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 Camera Atik460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade-MCMT-TDM Exposure details 35x15s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 0.33 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2019 Sep 21 08h07m16s Observation modification date 2019 Sep 21 08h14m19s