C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 17434)
Orbital period : 12049.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Apr 07 09h07 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.1 Aperture radius used for m1 0.42 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.8 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 5.04 " r (dist/Sun) 1.178 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.203 AU Right ascension 21 01 43.95 h m s Declination -13 48 02.2 ° ' " MPC report COD W97
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, B. Sandness, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.38-m f/4.6 Newton + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m1 : 5.04"
COM Aperture radius for m2 : 25.2"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.04.07 14:22:10
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
CK15E61R C2017 04 07.37961 21 01 43.95 -13 48 02.2 11.8 N W97
CK15E61R C2017 04 07.39017 21 01 47.10 -13 47 45.0 10.1 T W97
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 380 mm Instrument focale length 1748 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.6 Filter(s) R (RGB) Camera QSI 532 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Nova Autoguide No Exposure details 10x2mn Observatory MPC code W97 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.68 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Tracking speeds adjusted on comet movement. Observation submission date 2017 Apr 07 14h52m00s Observation modification date 2017 Apr 16 20h07m29s