C/2016 VZ18 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 17340)
Orbital period : 1997.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Mar 16 19h41 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.2 Aperture radius used for m1 0.8 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.4 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 3 ' r (dist/Sun) 0.923 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.561 AU Right ascension 03 00 37.57 h m s Declination +50 27 43.0 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.03.17 07:13:26
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 16.81984 03 00 37.57 +50 27 43.0 17.5 N A77
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 16.82842 03 00 39.19 +50 28 24.8 17.4 N A77
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 16.83695 03 00 40.80 +50 29 06.1 17.4 N A77
CK16V18Z KC2017 03 16.84548 03 00 42.43 +50 29 47.4 14.2 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Exposure details 46x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Mar 17 08h06m31s Observation modification date 2017 Mar 17 08h09m40s