C/2015 VL62 (Lemmon-Yeung-PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18117)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Aug 21 00h01 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 0.53 ' Tail length 0.03 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 70 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.721 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.742 AU Right ascension 21 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 configuration Config1 Instrument perso Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1480 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.4 Filter(s) L Camera ATIK 460 EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 12.5x10.0 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Valmeca Exposure total time 945 s Exposure details 21x45s Air mass 1.4 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares PRISM Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Observation submission date 2017 Aug 24 20h48m54s Observation modification date 2017 Aug 24 20h54m10s