C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18857)
Perihelion distance : 2.59 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 58 °
Orbital period : 13707 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Feb 14 20h33 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.3 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 2.752 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.437 AU Right ascension 59.60621 ° Declination +26.76844 ° 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 2018.02.15 07:20:53
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK16R020 KC2018 02 14.85643 03 58 25.49 +26 46 06.4 15.1 N A77
CK16R020 KC2018 02 14.87499 03 58 25.56 +26 46 23.6 14.9 N A77
CK16R020 KC2018 02 14.89466 03 58 25.69 +26 46 42.0 13.3 T A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter L Camera ATIK460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 5x90s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Feb 15 07h44m41s Observation modification date 2018 Feb 15 08h03m00s