260P/McNaught (Record n° 31833)
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 Sep 08 02h18 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " Magnitude band G r (dist/Sun) 1.468 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.078 AU Right ascension 72.55666 ° Declination +36.57123 ° ADES report
# version=2022
# observatory
! mpcCode Y87
# submitter
! name J.-G. Bosch
# observers
! name J.-G. Bosch
# measurers
! name J.-G. Bosch
# telescope
! design reflector
! aperture 0.25
! fRatio 4.75
! detector CMO
# software
! astrometry Tycho 13.6
! photometry Tycho 13.6
permID |provID |trkSub |mode|stn |obsTime |ra |dec |rmsRA|rmsDec|rmsFit|astCat |mag |rmsMag|band|photCat |photAp|logSNR|exp |notes|remarks
260P| | ABC1757| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-08T02:17:32Z |72.55666 |+36.57123 |0.14 |0.15 |0.21 | Gaia2|15.1 |0.01 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.88 |1050| K|
260P| | ABC1757| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-08T02:36:23Z |72.56540 |+36.57538 |0.13 |0.16 |0.21 | Gaia2|15.0 |0.03 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.95 |1025| K|
260P| | ABC1757| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-08T02:56:19Z |72.57457 |+36.57973 |0.14 |0.15 |0.20 | Gaia2|14.9 |0.07 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.91 |1025| K|
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 total time 1050 s Exposure details 124x25s Observatory MPC code Y87 Location Trevinca skies-Amalthea Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia2 Reference stars catalog (phot) Gaia2 Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 08 06h36m23s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 08 06h37m36s