260P/McNaught (Record n° 31909)
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 21 04h15 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.1 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " Magnitude band G r (dist/Sun) 1.512 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.049 AU Right ascension 80.85877 ° Declination +40.34459 ° 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| | ABC1830| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-21T04:14:46Z |80.85877 |+40.34459 |0.29 |0.23 |0.37 | Gaia2|15.1 |0.16 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.96 | 600| K|
260P| | ABC1830| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-21T04:24:55Z |80.86285 |+40.34644 |0.28 |0.22 |0.36 | Gaia2|15.2 |0.03 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.91 | 600| K|
260P| | ABC1830| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-21T04:34:50Z |80.86684 |+40.34830 |0.28 |0.22 |0.36 | Gaia2|15.1 |0.03 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.94 | 575| 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 Picture exposure details 71X25S 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 2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 21 05h28m29s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 21 05h37m37s