C/2017 T3 (ATLAS) (Record n° 18432)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Oct 25 19h42 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.7 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.4 " r (dist/Sun) 3.903 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.506 AU Right ascension 21 28 55.07 h m s Declination +78 23 13.2 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
COM Photometry aperture radius 6.4 arcsec (8 pixels, 0.8 arcsec/pix)
COM Cometary appearance: short tail 15" in PA around 130 Coma around 18"
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.10.25 23:15:56
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
CK17T030 KC2017 10 25.82055 21 28 55.07 +78 23 13.2 17.6 N A77
CK17T030 KC2017 10 25.82947 21 28 54.71 +78 23 05.1 17.7 N A77
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) L Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 33x60s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.8 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Oct 28 09h47m28s Observation modification date 2018 Apr 02 06h06m59s