C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 19024)
Perihelion distance : 2.59 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 58 °
Orbital period : 13707 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Apr 12 19h38 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Magnitude (MPC m2) 15.2 Magnitude standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius for m2 7.5 " Coma diameter 3 ' Tail length 0.28 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 83 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.619 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.063 AU Right ascension 71.29592 ° Declination +39.85569 ° 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 2018/04/12
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK16R020 C2018 04 12.81796 04 45 11.02 +39 51 20.5 15.2 N K97
CK16R020 C2018 04 12.83717 04 45 12.72 +39 51 34.9 15.2 N K97
CK16R020 C2018 04 12.85939 04 45 14.63 +39 51 51.0 15.3 N K97
Instrumental 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 1.6 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 Apr 13 14h01m04s Observation modification date 2018 Apr 13 14h06m48s