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C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)

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 18h51 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.2
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m27.5 "
Coma diameter6 '
r (dist/Sun) 2.752 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.437 AU
Right ascension59.60513 °
Declination+26.75003 °
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.4 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport C/2016 R2 2018/02/14
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 02 14.78519 03 58 25.23 +26 45 00.1          15.2 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 14.80298 03 58 25.31 +26 45 16.4          15.1 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 14.82375 03 58 25.36 +26 45 35.5          15.2 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.4
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1480 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.4
FilterL
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-15 °C
Binning2x2
MountVMA300
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time3960 s
Exposure details33x120s
Air mass1.09
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Feb 16 14h00m51s
Observation modification date2018 Feb 16 14h05m47s

(Record n° 18863)

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