260P/McNaught (Record n° 31996)
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 Oct 20 02h27 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.8 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " Magnitude band G r (dist/Sun) 1.647 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.997 AU Right ascension 93.66371 ° Declination +47.06345 ° 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| | ABC1972| CMO|Y87 |2026-10-20T02:26:49Z |93.66371 |+47.06345 |0.16 |0.15 |0.22 | Gaia2|15.7 |0.05 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.86 | 925| K|
260P| | ABC1972| CMO|Y87 |2026-10-20T02:43:46Z |93.66670 |+47.06604 |0.18 |0.18 |0.25 | Gaia2|15.8 |0.06 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.84 | 925| K|
260P| | ABC1972| CMO|Y87 |2026-10-20T03:00:29Z |93.66961 |+47.06862 |0.18 |0.17 |0.25 | Gaia2|15.8 |0.08 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.85 | 900| 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 110x25s 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 Oct 20 07h15m42s Observation modification date 2026 Oct 20 08h02m33s