C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 18941)
Perihelion distance : 2.59 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 58 °
Orbital period : 13707 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Mar 14 19h09 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.4 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 5 ' Tail length 0.23 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 89 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.671 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.764 AU Right ascension 62.91029 ° Declination +33.53597 ° 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 2018/03/14
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK16R020 C2018 03 14.79787 04 11 38.47 +33 32 09.5 15.4 N K97
CK16R020 C2018 03 14.81865 04 11 39.47 +33 32 26.5 15.3 N K97
CK16R020 C2018 03 14.83340 04 11 40.21 +33 32 38.2 15.4 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 3000 s Exposure details 25x120s Air mass 1.24 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 Observation submission date 2018 Mar 15 12h40m02s Observation modification date 2018 Mar 15 12h43m47s