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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 27 18h39 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.4
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m29.3 "
Afrho530 cm
Afrho error25 cm
r (dist/Sun) 2.711 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.589 AU
Right ascension60.49417 °
Declination+29.99189 °
MPC report
COD A77
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
COM CCD SBIG ST2000XM, filter Sloan r'
COM Photometry aperture radius 9.3 arcsec (5 pixels, 1.86 arcsec/pix)
ACK MPCReport file updated 2018.02.28 06:26:46
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 27.77675 04 01 58.60 +29 59 30.8          15.3 N      A77
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 27.79011 04 01 58.85 +29 59 42.5          15.5 N      A77
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 27.81266 04 01 59.44 +30 00 02.7          15.3 N      A77
    CK16R020 KC2018 02 27.82321 04 01 59.70 +30 00 11.6          15.4 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-15 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure details3x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.86 "/pix
Remarks or commentsAfrho r'= 530 cm (10 000 km)
Observation submission date2018 Feb 28 06h33m33s
Observation modification date2018 Feb 28 07h11m17s

(Record n° 18899)

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