C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 22108)
Perihelion distance : 1.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 88 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2020 May 15 23h03 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 15.8 Aperture radius for m1 0.33 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 17.0 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 0.67 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 r (dist/Sun) 9.166 AU d (dist/Earth) 8.925 AU Right ascension 271.22167 ° Declination +52.86889 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson T407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Filter None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur Table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 69 s Exposure details 17x2+14x2.5s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 3 Air mass 1 Location Boulonville (28) Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing division flat, alignement, somme, retrait gradient Observation submission date 2020 Jun 27 23h22m47s