C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18760)
Orbital period : 10687.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Jan 13 23h03 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 5 ' Tail length 0.32 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 102 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.878 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.129 AU Right ascension 04 10 49.30 h m s Declination +17 58 30.9 ° ' " 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 MPCReport C/2016R2 2018/01/13
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK16R020 C2018 01 13.96061 04 10 49.30 +17 58 30.9 15.0 N K97
CK16R020 C2018 01 13.97963 04 10 48.30 +17 58 51.0 15.1 N K97
CK16R020 C2018 01 13.99571 04 10 47.47 +17 59 07.6 15.1 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 Valmeca Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3480 s Exposure details 29x120s Air mass 1.4 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Remarks or comments Plusieurs queues sont visibles: principale: PA 102° lg: 19' secondaire: PA 78° lg: 9' et tertiaire: PA 39° lg: 0.78' Observation submission date 2018 Jan 14 13h42m27s Observation modification date 2018 Jan 16 13h24m00s