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C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)

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 deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.166 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.267 AU
Right ascension02 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 configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.4
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
MotorizationYes
Exposure total time2160 s
Exposure details9x4mn
Moon phase27 °
Moon elongation75 °
Air mass1.2
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2017 Dec 30 17h17m37s
Observation modification date2017 Dec 30 17h32m02s

(Record n° 18714)

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