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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 25 19h44 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.3
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m27.5 "
Coma diameter2 '
Tail length0.27 °
Tail position angle (PA)89 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.717 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.566 AU
Right ascension60.28558 °
Declination+29.51525 °
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 2018/02/25
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020  C2018 02 25.82214 04 01 08.54 +29 30 54.9          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 25.82606 04 01 08.62 +29 30 58.5          15.4 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 25.84413 04 01 09.00 +29 31 14.1          15.2 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 25.85139 04 01 09.18 +29 31 20.6          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 25.86176 04 01 09.45 +29 31 29.5          15.3 N      K97
    CK16R020  C2018 02 25.86911 04 01 09.57 +29 31 36.2          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 time2760 s
Exposure details23x120s
Moon phase41 °
Moon elongation38 °
Air mass1.3
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Remarks or commentsOndulation de la queue
Observation submission date2018 Feb 26 18h09m45s
Observation modification date2018 Feb 26 18h13m42s

(Record n° 18898)

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