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Gallery: 46P/Wirtanen

Image taken by Charles Bell


Fig 1:
 

Image Parameter Details
Image Date (UTC): 2018-09-19
Image Time (UTC): 09:33:14
Exposure: 1440s
Filter: R
Field of View:
Observing Site: Charles Bell H47 Vicksburg
Observing Equipment: 0.3-m Schmidt-Cassegrain + SBIG ST8
Digital Processing:
Comments:
46P/Wirtanen
2018-Sep-19 09:33:14 UTC
Sky Motion 0.77"/min P.A. 154.7 deg
Exposure 1440 seconds
Stacked in Astrometrica
Magnitude 15.3 R aper radius 10.4 arcsec UCAC4
Afrho: 17.0 cm aperture radius = 4383 km
Coma 40"×33" extended 280 deg
Tail 1.3 arc min PA 280 deg
Charles Bell H47 Vicksburg
0.3-m Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD + R filter
ArcSinh stretched in FitsLiberator and  Annotated and cropped in Photoshop
Observation data image 

Ephemeris data:
t - T = -84.53812 days
Delta = 0.581 AU
r = 1.513 AU
Elongation = 143.6 deg
Phase = 23.2 deg
PsAng = 301.5 deg
PsAMV = 247.0 deg
PlAng = 20.5 deg 
Constellation: Cetus (Cet)

Table 1: Data about image.
 

Updated: 14-Dec-2018