C/2025 M2 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 31904)
Perihelion distance : 2.72 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 173 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 19 21h17 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.4 Aperture radius for m2 7.2 " Magnitude band G r (dist/Sun) 4.993 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.609 AU Right ascension 283.31388 ° Declination -21.34343 ° ADES report
# version=2022
# observatory
! mpcCode Y87
# submitter
! name J.-G. Bosch
# observers
! name J.-G. Bosch
# measurers
! name J.-G. Bosch
# telescope
! design reflector
! aperture 0.25
! fRatio 4.75
! detector CMO
# software
! astrometry Tycho 13.6
! photometry Tycho 13.6
permID |provID |trkSub |mode|stn |obsTime |ra |dec |rmsRA|rmsDec|rmsFit|astCat |mag |rmsMag|band|photCat |photAp|logSNR|exp |notes|remarks
|C/2025 M2 | TR0000| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-19T21:17:19Z |283.31388 |-21.34343 |0.27 |0.30 |0.41 | Gaia2|16.5 |0.32 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.39 | 940| K|
|C/2025 M2 | TR0000| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-19T21:34:16Z |283.31172 |-21.34356 |0.34 |0.36 |0.49 | Gaia2|16.5 |0.43 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.40 | 920| K|
|C/2025 M2 | TR0000| CMO|Y87 |2026-09-19T21:51:03Z |283.30966 |-21.34356 |0.31 |0.33 |0.45 | Gaia2|16.2 |0.13 | G| Gaia2| 7.2 |1.51 | 920| K|
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 1187.5 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.75 Camera Asi 294MM Sensor CMOS Sensor temperature -5 °C Binning 4x4 Mount EQ6-R pro Picture exposure details 139X20S Observatory MPC code Y87 Location Trevinca skies-Amalthea Reference stars catalog (ast) Gaia2 Reference stars catalog (phot) Gaia2 Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 2 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 20 07h03m43s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 20 07h07m40s