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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 Apr 12 19h38 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Magnitude (MPC m2)15.2
Magnitude standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius for m27.5 "
Coma diameter3 '
Tail length0.28 °
Tail position angle (PA)83 °
r (dist/Sun) 2.619 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.063 AU
Right ascension71.29592 °
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 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 mass1.6
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 Apr 13 14h01m04s
Observation modification date2018 Apr 13 14h06m48s

(Record n° 19024)

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