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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 Mar 14 19h09 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.4
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m27.5 "
Coma diameter5 '
Tail length0.23 °
Tail position angle (PA)89 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.671 AU
d (dist/Earth) 2.764 AU
Right ascension62.91029 °
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      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 time3000 s
Exposure details25x120s
Air mass1.24
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalog (ast)UCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Mar 15 12h40m02s
Observation modification date2018 Mar 15 12h43m47s

(Record n° 18941)

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