C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18415)
Orbital period : 12049.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Oct 16 02h10 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 1.4 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 263 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.583 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.702 AU Right ascension 03 38 54.73 h m s Declination +21 18 13.0 ° ' " 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
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15E61R C2017 10 16.09057 03 38 54.73 +21 18 13.0 16.3 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 10 16.10962 03 38 53.53 +21 18 06.8 16.4 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 10 16.13012 03 38 52.20 +21 18 00.0 16.1 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 3240 s Exposure details 27x120s Moon phase 155 ° Moon elongation 100 ° Air mass 1.1 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares PRISM Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Observation submission date 2017 Oct 26 10h49m26s Observation modification date 2017 Oct 26 11h01m15s