260P/McNaught (Record n° 31789)
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 Aug 23 02h13 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 1.432 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.119 AU Right ascension 61.3465 ° Declination +31.10364 ° 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 6
ACK MPCReport file updated 2026.08.23 09:16:45
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0260P KC2026 08 23.09253 04 05 23.16 +31 06 13.1 15.0 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 23.09629 04 05 23.81 +31 06 18.2 15.0 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 23.10148 04 05 24.71 +31 06 25.2 15.0 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 23.10667 04 05 25.58 +31 06 32.3 15.0 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 23.11044 04 05 26.23 +31 06 37.3 15.0 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 23.11421 04 05 26.88 +31 06 42.4 15.0 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 -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 60 x 30s 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 Aug 23 09h29m53s Observation modification date 2026 Aug 26 10h21m53s