C/2018 W2 (Africano) (Record n° 21047)
Perihelion distance : 1.46 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 117 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2019 Sep 20 00h19 UT by Michael Irzyk
(Copyright Michael Irzyk)Magnitude (MPC m2) 13.7 Aperture radius for m2 10 " r (dist/Sun) 1.469 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.551 AU Right ascension 14.68429 ° Declination +35.09403 ° Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument FSQ85 Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 85 mm Instrument focale length 451 mm Filter Clear Camera H694 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount EM11 Motorization No Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 330 s Exposure details 11x30s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 3 Seeing 3 Location Boissettes 77350 France Reference stars catalog (ast) GSC (HST) Used softwares PRISM Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.08 "/pix Image processing bias /dark / flat Observation submission date 2019 Sep 22 14h58m23s