260P/McNaught (Record n° 31856)
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 13 04h26 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) 1.484 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.066 AU Right ascension 75.91030 ° Declination +38.10911 ° 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| | ABC1790| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-13T04:26:12Z |75.91030 |+38.10911 |0.11 |0.26 |0.28 | Gaia2|15.0 |0.03 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.99 | 725| K|
260P| | ABC1790| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-13T04:38:27Z |75.91569 |+38.11162 |0.11 |0.25 |0.27 | Gaia2|15.0 |0.03 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.97 | 725| K|
260P| | ABC1790| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-13T04:51:41Z |75.92146 |+38.11435 |0.13 |0.25 |0.28 | Gaia2|15.0 |0.08 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.84 | 700| 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 725 s Exposure details 81x25s 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 13 06h29m30s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 13 06h32m30s