C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 23906)
Perihelion distance : 1.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 88 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2021 Sep 01 22h51 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.0 Aperture radius for m1 0.8 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.9 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 1.1 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 r (dist/Sun) 5.461 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.385 AU Right ascension 254.28917 ° Declination +32.43472 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Filter None Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 13 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 81 s Exposure details 23*2s+14*2.5s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Moon phase 135 ° Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 1.7 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement, somme, retrait gradient Observation submission date 2021 Sep 05 00h01m25s