C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 19497)
Perihelion distance : 1.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 88 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Aug 14 23h27 UT by Lionel Rousselot
(Copyright Lionel Rousselot)Magnitude (MPC m2) 18.4 Aperture radius for m2 5.8 " Coma condensation degree
(DC) 9 r (dist/Sun) 13.419 AU d (dist/Earth) 13.394 AU Right ascension 257.84346 ° Declination +59.57628 ° Instrument Skywatcher 254/1200 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 254 mm Instrument focale length 1080 mm Filter None Camera ZWO 1600 monochrome Sensor CCD Binning 2x2 Mount AZ eq6 Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1200 s Exposure details 10x120s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 2 Location vierzon france Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4 Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.45 "/pix Observation submission date 2018 Aug 15 16h26m23s