260P/McNaught (Record n° 31675)
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 17 03h43 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.5 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.434 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.270 AU Right ascension 34.61379 ° Declination +15.27397 ° MPC report COD Y87
CON J.-G. Bosch
OBS J.-G. Bosch
MEA J.-G. Bosch
TEL 0.25-m f/4.75 reflector + CMO
NUM 18
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.07.17 08:26:29
NET Gaia DR2
AC2 jgbosch@free.fr
0260P KB2026 07 17.15488 02 18 27.31 +15 16 26.3 15.3 G Y87
0260P KB2026 07 17.16017 02 18 28.27 +15 16 34.7 15.5 G Y87
0260P KB2026 07 17.16636 02 18 29.28 +15 16 44.6 15.6 G Y87
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 1187.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.75 Camera Asi 294MM Sensor CMOS Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 4x4 Mount EQ6-R pro Exposure details 67x20s Observatory MPC code Y87 Location Trevinca skies-Amalthea Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia DR2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Jul 17 08h29m02s Observation modification date 2026 Jul 17 21h17m46s