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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 10687.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Mar 21 20h03 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16.2
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter3.3 '
Tail length0.28 °
Tail position angle (PA)87 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.655 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.842 AU
Right ascension04 18 03.51 h m s
Declination+35 07 49.8 ° ' "
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/2016 R2 2018/03/21
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 03 21.83573 04 18 03.51 +35 07 49.8          16.1 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 03 21.84461 04 18 04.03 +35 07 57.0          16.1 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 03 21.88015 04 18 06.15 +35 08 25.2          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
MountVMA300
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3480 s
Exposure details29x120s
Moon phase144 °
Moon elongation24 °
Air mass1.5
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Remarks or commentsL'astrométrie avec ASTROMETRICA n'a pas fonctionnée. (Non reconnaissance des champs d'étoiles)
Observation submission date2018 Mar 23 14h32m03s
Observation modification date2018 Mar 23 14h37m47s

(Record n° 18963)

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