C/2015 V2 (Johnson) (Record n° 17543)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Apr 17 23h58 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 9.9 Aperture radius used for m1 2.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.6 Aperture radius used for m2 4.0 " Coma diameter 4.0 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 0.2 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 310 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.801 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.157 AU Right ascension 16 16 48.2 h m s Declination +46 46 25 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T407 F/D 4.3 Dobson Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony A7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 29 s Exposure details 58x1/2s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Air mass 1.2 Location Crespières, Yvelines, France Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing Somme et retrait gradient sous IRIS Remarks or comments Nord vers PA 80° sur l'image Observation submission date 2017 Apr 18 16h45m58s