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C/2017 O1 (ASASSN)

Orbital period : 6932.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Sep 24 01h38 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)15.3
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
Coma diameter7.5 '
Tail length0.16 °
Tail position angle (PA)238 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.527 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.814 AU
Right ascension04 15 18.54 h m s
Declination+27 49 30.9 ° ' "
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/2017O1  2017/09/24
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK17O010  C2017 09 24.06774 04 15 18.54 +27 49 30.9          15.3 N      K97
    CK17O010  C2017 09 24.07552 04 15 19.15 +27 49 58.8          15.1 N      K97
    CK17O010  C2017 09 24.08388 04 15 19.82 +27 50 29.2          15.4 N      K97
    CK17O010  C2017 09 24.09463 04 15 20.66 +27 51 07.9          15.3 N      K97
    CK17O010  C2017 09 24.10241 04 15 21.27 +27 51 35.8          15.2 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
Exposure total time3465 s
Exposure details77x45s
Air mass1.2
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Remarks or commentsConcernant la queue, il s'agit plutôt d'une élongation de la coma dans cette direction
Observation submission date2017 Sep 24 10h14m24s
Observation modification date2017 Sep 24 10h20m12s

(Record n° 18284)

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