C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18853)
Perihelion distance : 2.59 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 58 °
Orbital period : 13707 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Feb 12 19h26 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 12.0 Aperture radius for m1 1.5 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.2 Aperture radius for m2 10 " Coma diameter 3 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 3 r (dist/Sun) 2.759 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.414 AU Right ascension 59.57417 ° Declination +26.23889 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Filter None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 52.3 s Exposure details 25/3+72/2+8s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 4 Air mass 1.15 Location Crespières (78) Reference stars catalog (ast) Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing somme et recallage + gradient retiré Remarks or comments magnitude donnée en Vert, après séparation RGB:
mR=12.4, mG=12.0, mB=11.2
image recadrée 20'*40' Observation submission date 2018 Feb 14 15h42m49s