C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18384)
Orbital period : 12049.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Oct 15 02h11 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 1.6 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 263 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.571 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.698 AU Right ascension 03 39 56.42 h m s Declination +21 23 30.4 ° ' " 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/2015 ER61 2017/10/15
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15E61R C2017 10 15.09126 03 39 56.42 +21 23 30.4 16.3 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 10 15.11332 03 39 55.02 +21 23 23.6 16.4 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 10 15.12950 03 39 54.02 +21 23 18.4 16.4 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 2520 s Exposure details 21x120s Moon phase 139 ° Moon elongation 87 ° Air mass 1.13 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 Observation submission date 2017 Oct 18 11h04m54s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 18 11h13m44s