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C/2016 VZ18 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 1997.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Feb 18 19h11 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)15.8
Aperture radius used for m10.4 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.8
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m25.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 0.962 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.695 AU
Right ascension02 09 24.96 h m s
Declination+19 26 57.5 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.02.19 07:53:51
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK16V18Z KC2017 02 18.79954 02 09 24.96 +19 26 57.5          18.7 N      A77
    CK16V18Z KC2017 02 18.81360 02 09 26.06 +19 27 47.4          18.8 N      A77
    CK16V18Z KC2017 02 18.82762 02 09 27.19 +19 28 38.1          15.8 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)None
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details27x120s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.78 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Feb 19 07h57m19s
Observation modification date2017 Feb 19 08h05m04s

(Record n° 17187)

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