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C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 12049.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Oct 19 01h38 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16.4
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter1.3 '
Tail position angle (PA)263 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.618 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.714 AU
Right ascension03 35 45.35 h m s
Declination+21 01 55.0 ° ' "
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/2015ER61 2017/10/19
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK15E61R  C2017 10 19.06800 03 35 45.35 +21 01 55.0          16.4 N      K97
    CK15E61R  C2017 10 19.08861 03 35 43.98 +21 01 48.2          16.5 N      K97
    CK15E61R  C2017 10 19.09451 03 35 43.59 +21 01 46.3          16.3 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.4
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1480 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.4
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
Exposure total time3240 s
Exposure details27x120s
Air mass1.1
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2017 Nov 02 09h21m00s
Observation modification date2017 Nov 02 09h39m29s

(Record n° 18452)

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