C/2016 VZ18 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 17260)
Orbital period : 1997.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Mar 02 19h27 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.7 Aperture radius used for m1 0.4 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " Coma diameter 2 ' r (dist/Sun) 0.915 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.626 AU Right ascension 02 28 02.72 h m s Declination +32 29 59.6 ° ' " 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 2017.03.03 07:19:17
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 02.81013 02 28 02.72 +32 29 59.6 17.0 N A77
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 02.82350 02 28 04.14 +32 30 55.8 17.1 N A77
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 02.83686 02 28 05.53 +32 31 51.9 14.7 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 33x90s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.78 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Mar 03 07h21m38s Observation modification date 2017 Mar 03 07h45m49s