C/2015 D3 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 13465)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 23 06h23 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 19.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 4.1 " r (dist/Sun) 8.528 AU d (dist/Earth) 7.638 AU Right ascension 11 05 17.97 h m s Declination -15 10 30.1 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.02.23
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK15D030 KC2015 02 23.26631 11 05 17.97 -15 10 30.1 19.5 R W96
CK15D030 KC2015 02 23.28124 11 05 17.45 -15 10 25.1 19.4 R W96
CK15D030 KC2015 02 23.29916 11 05 16.85 -15 10 19.1 19.2 R W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 45 x 80s Moon elongation 134 ° Air mass 1.02 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 28 02h49m47s Observation modification date 2015 Mar 15 23h15m52s