C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18883)
Perihelion distance : 2.59 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 58 °
Orbital period : 13707 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Feb 19 19h27 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.6 Aperture radius for m1 0.4 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 15 Magnitude standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 2.736 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.495 AU Right ascension 59.80829 ° Declination +28.02553 ° 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 2018.02.20 07:44:00
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK16R020 KC2018 02 19.81049 03 59 13.99 +28 01 31.9 15.0 N A77
CK16R020 KC2018 02 19.82704 03 59 14.19 +28 01 46.8 15.0 N A77
CK16R020 KC2018 02 19.84359 03 59 14.40 +28 02 01.4 13.6 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 7x120s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.36 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Remarks or comments animation : http://observatoire.dauban.free.fr/kugel/video/C16R2-2018-02-19.gif Observation submission date 2018 Feb 20 07h45m48s Observation modification date 2018 Feb 20 21h22m41s