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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 10687.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Feb 08 17h58 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.4
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m29.3 "
Afrho650 cm
r (dist/Sun) 2.773 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.369 AU
Right ascension03 58 25.37 h m s
Declination+25 10 48.2 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.02.09 07:51:51
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
COM CCD SBIG ST2000XM, filter Sloan r' 
COM Photometry aperture radius 9.3 arcsec (5 pixels, 1.86 arcsec/pix)
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 08.74888 03 58 25.37 +25 10 48.2          15.3 N      A77
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 08.75318 03 58 25.35 +25 10 52.0          15.4 N      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)r
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure details6x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.86 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfrho = 650 cm (10 000 km)
Observation submission date2018 Feb 09 08h05m12s
Observation modification date2018 Feb 09 08h32m03s

(Record n° 18831)

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