C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 29285)
Perihelion distance : 1.8 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 88 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Dec 26 21h21 UT by Nicolas Delaunoy
(Copyright Nicolas Delaunoy)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.4 Aperture radius for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 7.588 AU d (dist/Earth) 6.612 AU Right ascension 86.87529 ° Declination +21.07794 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument UNISTELLAR eQuinox2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 115 mm Instrument focale length 450 mm Filter None Camera IMX347 Sensor CMOS Sensor size 7.1x5.3 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2088x1536 Binning 1x1 Mount ALT-AZ Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 1336 s Exposure details 334x4s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Seeing 3 Moon phase 132 ° Moon elongation 142 ° Observatory MPC code XXX Location Yerres, 91330, France Reference stars catalog (ast) UCAC-4 Used softwares Tycho tracker (master darks avec Siril) Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.32 "/pix Observation submission date 2024 Dec 29 19h16m39s