C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18714)
Orbital period : 12049.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Dec 06 20h59 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.4 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 3.166 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.267 AU Right ascension 02 48 41.03 h m s Declination +16 29 10.2 ° ' " 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 ER61 2017/12/06
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK15E61R C2017 12 06.87409 02 48 41.03 +16 29 10.2 17.4 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 12 06.88557 02 48 40.67 +16 29 07.7 17.0 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 12 06.89130 02 48 40.43 +16 29 06.3 17.6 N K97
CK15E61R C2017 12 06.89991 02 48 40.17 +16 29 04.6 17.5 N K97
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T200 F/D 7.4 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 Motorization Yes Exposure total time 2160 s Exposure details 9x4mn Moon phase 27 ° Moon elongation 75 ° Air mass 1.2 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 Dec 30 17h17m37s Observation modification date 2017 Dec 30 17h32m02s