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C/2017 T3 (ATLAS)


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 deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m26.4 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.903 AU
d (dist/Earth) 3.506 AU
Right ascension21 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 configurationConfig1
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)L
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details33x60s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.8 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Oct 28 09h47m28s
Observation modification date2018 Apr 02 06h06m59s

(Record n° 18432)

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