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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 21 18h19 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)13.6
Aperture radius for m10.4 '
Magnitude (MPC m2)15
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m29.3 "
Afrho600 cm
Afrho error25 cm
r (dist/Sun) 2.729 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.519 AU
Right ascension59.93629 °
Declination+28.51331 °
MPC report
COD A77
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.02.22 16:00:27
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 21.76309 03 59 44.71 +28 30 47.9          14.9 N      A77
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 21.77122 03 59 44.85 +28 30 55.1          15.0 N      A77
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 21.77691 03 59 44.91 +28 31 00.1          15.0 N      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filterr'
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure details31x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.86 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfrho r' sloan = environ 600 cm (10000km)
Observation submission date2018 Feb 22 19h18m20s
Observation modification date2018 Feb 28 07h14m16s

(Record n° 18893)

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