260P/McNaught (Record n° 31620)
Perihelion distance : 1.42 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 15 °
Orbital period : 6.9 years
Eccentricity : 0.61
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Jul 04 02h27 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.6 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " r (dist/Sun) 1.463 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.351 AU Right ascension 25.48704 ° Declination +9.17142 ° MPC report COD L27
CON J.-F. Soulier
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.25-m f/3.5 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.07.04 07:37:03
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0260P KC2026 07 04.10226 01 41 56.89 +09 10 17.1 15.7 r L27
0260P KC2026 07 04.10732 01 41 57.75 +09 10 25.7 15.6 r L27
0260P KC2026 07 04.11203 01 41 58.53 +09 10 33.8 15.6 r L27
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 875 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.5 Filter None Camera ATIK 414 EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 20 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Jul 04 07h52m17s Observation modification date 2026 Jul 04 13h59m07s