C/2015 J2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 13886)
Orbital period : 5099.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 May 18 02h02 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 19.2 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 4.420 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.417 AU Right ascension 16 08 53.22 h m s Declination -23 28 11.7 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.05.18
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15J020 KC2015 05 18.08447 16 08 53.22 -23 28 11.7 19.2 R W96
CK15J020 KC2015 05 18.11861 16 08 52.25 -23 28 17.0 19.1 R W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 34 x 120s Moon elongation 168 ° Air mass 1.41 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 May 19 09h10m52s Observation modification date 2015 Jun 24 07h56m05s