260P/McNaught (Record n° 31808)
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 31 00h32 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.75 " Magnitude band r r (dist/Sun) 1.448 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.097 AU Right ascension 66.99663 ° Declination +33.93528 ° 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 2026.08.31 08:15:17
NET ATLAS2
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
0260P KC2026 08 31.02252 04 27 59.19 +33 56 07.0 15.0 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 31.03700 04 28 01.63 +33 56 25.1 14.9 r L27
0260P KC2026 08 31.05288 04 28 04.30 +33 56 44.9 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 -5 °C Binning 1x1 Mount PARAMOUNT ME Autoguide No Exposure details 60 x 60s Observatory MPC code L27 Location Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2
Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.5 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Aug 31 06h35m38s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 04 21h25m18s