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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 10687.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Apr 13 19h49 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.2
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter2.7 '
Tail length0.33 °
Tail position angle (PA)79 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.618 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.072 AU
Right ascension04 46 40.43 h m s
Declination+40 03 45.8 ° ' "
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 MPCReport C/2016R2 2018/04/13
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 04 13.82593 04 46 40.43 +40 03 45.8          15.2 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 04 13.84506 04 46 42.20 +40 04 00.2          15.2 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 04 13.86111 04 46 43.62 +40 04 11.9          15.3 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
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3720 s
Exposure details31x120s
Air mass1.6
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Apr 14 19h06m28s
Observation modification date2018 Apr 14 19h17m24s

(Record n° 19027)

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