C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18762)
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 deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 2.7 ' Tail position angle
(PA) 105 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.874 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.136 AU Right ascension 04 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 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 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3000 s Exposure details 25x120s Air mass 1.1 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 Rétrécissement de la queue puis élargissement Observation submission date 2018 Jan 15 21h44m52s Observation modification date 2018 Jan 16 13h23m18s