C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) (Record n° 18262)
Orbital period : 6932.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Sep 21 01h12 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.6 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 9.5 ' Tail length 0.12 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 240 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.535 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.839 AU Right ascension 04 11 07.27 h m s Declination +24 52 22.5 ° ' " MPC report COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.4 reflector + CCD
ACK Report C/2017 O1 2017/09/21
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK17O010 C2017 09 21.05018 04 11 07.27 +24 52 22.5 15.6 N K97
CK17O010 C2017 09 21.06024 04 11 08.08 +24 52 57.2 15.6 N K97
CK17O010 C2017 09 21.07032 04 11 08.91 +24 53 31.8 15.5 N K97
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T200 F/D 7.4 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1480 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.4 Filter(s) L Camera ATIK 460 EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 12.5x10.0 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Exposure total time 2025 s Exposure details 45x45 Air mass 1.25 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares PRISM Image resize factor 0.728 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Remarks or comments La coma est allongée dans la direction PA = 240°. Cela pourrait correspondre à une légère queue Observation submission date 2017 Sep 21 10h47m19s Observation modification date 2017 Sep 24 10h30m42s