C/2017 O1 (ASASSN) (Record n° 18284)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 7.5 ' Tail length 0.16 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 238 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.527 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.814 AU Right ascension 04 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 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 Exposure total time 3465 s Exposure details 77x45s 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 Remarks or comments Concernant la queue, il s'agit plutôt d'une élongation de la coma dans cette direction Observation submission date 2017 Sep 24 10h14m24s Observation modification date 2017 Sep 24 10h20m12s