C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) (Record n° 18271)
Orbital period : 6932.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Sep 22 08h28 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.2 Aperture radius used for m1 0.8 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.7 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 1.532 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.830 AU Right ascension 04 12 55.94 h m s Declination +26 07 58.9 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON Thierry Noel [thierrynoel38a@free.fr]
OBS A. Maury, J.-B. de Vanssay, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/5.4 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
COM Aperture radius for m1 : 0.8'
COM Aperture radius for m2 : 6.4"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.09.22 12:25:12
AC2 thierrynoel38a@free.fr
NET Gaia DR1
CK17O010 C2017 09 22.35270 04 12 55.94 +26 07 58.9 14.7 N W96
CK17O010 C2017 09 22.35970 04 12 56.52 +26 08 23.5 12.2 T W96
CK17O010 C2017 09 22.36636 04 12 57.02 +26 08 47.2 14.7 N W96
Instrument Marcon RC 400 Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 2160 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.4 Filter(s) None Camera QSI 532ws-M1 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA 200 Autoguide No Exposure details 12x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.59 "/pix Image processing Prism (-dark, /flat), Astrometrica (add), Iris (gradient, levels, ddp, crop) Remarks or comments Mount speeds set to follow comet Observation submission date 2017 Sep 22 13h26m58s Observation modification date 2017 Sep 22 14h57m45s