C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18898)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 2 ' Tail length 0.27 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 89 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.717 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.566 AU Right ascension 60.28558 ° 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 K97Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T200 F/D 7.4 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1480 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.4 Filter L Camera ATIK 460 EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 12.5x10.0 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2760 s Exposure details 23x120s Moon phase 41 ° Moon elongation 38 ° Air mass 1.3 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Remarks or comments Ondulation de la queue Observation submission date 2018 Feb 26 18h09m45s Observation modification date 2018 Feb 26 18h13m42s