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C/2015 T4 (PANSTARRS)

Orbital period : 716.50 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Oct 16 08h02 UT by Thierry Noel


(Copyright Thierry Noel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)18.5
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m25.2 "
r (dist/Sun)3.289 AU
d (dist/Earth)2.781 AU
Right ascension05 53 41.78 h m s
Declination+02 30 03.1 ° ' "
MPC report
COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
COM 3x5x60s stacked exposures,
COM Sampling : 1.04"/pixel,
COM Aperture radius for mag measures : 5.2"
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.10.16 10:44:22
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
     P10oB6h KC2015 10 16.33498 05 53 41.78 +02 30 03.1          18.5 R      W96
     P10oB6h KC2015 10 16.34158 05 53 41.64 +02 29 55.6          18.6 R      W96
     P10oB6h KC2015 10 16.34965 05 53 41.49 +02 29 46.6          18.3 R      W96
Instrument typeRitchey-Chretien
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length3200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter8
Filter(s)None
CameraQHY9
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-35 °C
Binning3x3
MountParamount
Exposure details25x1mn
Observatory MPC codeW96
LocationSan Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.04 "/pix
Image processingAstrometrica (-dark, /flat, add), Iris (levels, crop)
Observation submission date2015 Oct 16 14h19m19s
Observation modification date2015 Oct 16 18h44m36s

(Record n° 14614)

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