C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18963)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 3.3 ' Tail length 0.28 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 87 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.655 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.842 AU Right ascension 04 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 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 Mount VMA300 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 3480 s Exposure details 29x120s Moon phase 144 ° Moon elongation 24 ° Air mass 1.5 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares PRISM Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Remarks or comments L'astrométrie avec ASTROMETRICA n'a pas fonctionnée. (Non reconnaissance des champs d'étoiles) Observation submission date 2018 Mar 23 14h32m03s Observation modification date 2018 Mar 23 14h37m47s