C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18092)
Perihelion distance : 1.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 88 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Aug 21 20h01 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.9 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.6 " r (dist/Sun) 15.562 AU d (dist/Earth) 15.579 AU Right ascension 257.53079 ° Declination +62.06206 ° MPC report COD A77
CON JEAN-FRANCOIS SOULIER [jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Newtonian reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.08.21
AC2 jean-francois.soulier2@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK17K020 KC2017 08 21.83393 17 10 07.39 +62 03 43.4 18.8 N A77
CK17K020 KC2017 08 21.86772 17 10 07.11 +62 03 34.9 19.0 N A77
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 800 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4 Filter None Camera ATIK 314L+ Sensor CCD Sensor temperature 0 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Astronomy Equipment AEb Autoguide No Exposure details 30 x 60s Observatory MPC code A77 Location Dauban (04) Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.65 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Aug 21 23h40m25s Observation modification date 2017 Aug 22 00h00m22s