Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Capricornus (Cap)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes, Taras Prystavski
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Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes

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Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes

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Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes
2024 Mar. 23.40 UT  m1=14.4: (m2=15.5) Dia.=&0.4' Tail=&2.9' in PA 249 deg... [T72] 0.51-m f/6.8 Corrected Dall-Kirkham + CCD... T. Prystavski... (iTelescope observatory, X07 (remotely from Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile))
[morning twilight]

X07_2024_03_23-2_multi.txt

MPCReport_Calibrated-T72-prystavski_0130P-20240323-093046-Luminance-BIN2030-001-0+7.txt

130P/McNaught-Hughes
Epoch 2024 Mar. 31.0 TT = JDT 2460400.5
T 2024 Apr. 14.8832 TT Rudenko
q 1.822985 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.1585200 Peri. 246.1273 +0.7182265 +0.6886766 T = 2460415.38316 JDT
a 3.381271 Node 70.1787 -0.5937877 +0.6810852 q = 1.8229852
e 0.460858 Incl. 6.0636 -0.3627215 +0.2486917 Earth MOID = 0.81965 AU
P 6.22

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Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Light curve created using "Comet for Windows" software. Copyright(C) Seiichi Yoshida.

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Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes, Taras Prystavski

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