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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 10687.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Jan 14 19h43 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.3
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter2.7 '
Tail position angle (PA)105 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.874 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.136 AU
Right ascension04 10 05.49 h m s
Declination+18 13 39.4 ° ' "
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 MPCReport C/2016R2 2018/01/14
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 01 14.82178 04 10 05.49 +18 13 39.4          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 01 14.84678 04 10 04.20 +18 14 05.8          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 01 14.87179 04 10 02.92 +18 14 32.1          15.3 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
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3000 s
Exposure details25x120s
Air mass1.1
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Remarks or commentsRétrécissement de la queue puis élargissement
Observation submission date2018 Jan 15 21h44m52s
Observation modification date2018 Jan 16 13h23m18s

(Record n° 18762)

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