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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 10687.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Mar 25 20h07 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.4
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Tail position angle (PA)88 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.647 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.885 AU
Right ascension04 22 12.98 h m s
Declination+36 01 11.4 ° ' "
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/2016 R2 2018/03/25
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 03 25.83837 04 22 12.98 +36 01 11.4          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 03 25.84725 04 22 13.59 +36 01 18.4          15.4 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 03 25.85762 04 22 14.29 +36 01 26.7          15.4 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
Exposure total time2520 s
Exposure details21x120s
Moon phase66 °
Moon elongation43 °
Air mass1.5
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Remarks or commentsLa Lune gêne beaucoup les prises de vue
Observation submission date2018 Mar 31 14h13m05s
Observation modification date2018 Mar 31 14h26m16s

(Record n° 18996)

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