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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 10687.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Apr 17 20h44 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.2
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 2.613 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.107 AU
Right ascension04 52 51.43 h m s
Declination+40 52 58.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.45 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport C/2016R2 2018/04/17
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 04 17.86398 04 52 51.43 +40 52 58.3          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 04 17.87274 04 52 52.24 +40 53 04.9          15.2 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 04 17.87717 04 52 52.62 +40 53 08.0          15.2 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.45
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1490 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.45
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 phase173 °
Moon elongation35 °
Air mass1.9
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Apr 20 18h37m29s
Observation modification date2018 Apr 20 18h40m31s

(Record n° 19057)

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