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C/2015 VL62 (Lemmon-Yeung-PANSTARRS)


NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Aug 21 00h01 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)16
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter0.53 '
Tail length0.03 °
Tail position angle (PA)70 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.721 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.742 AU
Right ascension21 34 04.33 h m s
Declination+04 53 43.1 ° ' "
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 Report C/2015 VL62 2017/08/21
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK15V62L  C2017 08 21.00096 21 34 04.33 +04 53 43.1          15.9 N      K97
    CK15V62L  C2017 08 21.00750 21 34 02.81 +04 53 33.2          16.0 N      K97
    CK15V62L  C2017 08 21.01225 21 34 01.70 +04 53 26.1          16.0 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
Instrumentperso
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 Valmeca
Exposure total time945 s
Exposure details21x45s
Air mass1.4
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2017 Aug 24 20h48m54s
Observation modification date2017 Aug 24 20h54m10s

(Record n° 18117)

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