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C/2018 A3 (ATLAS)

Orbital period : 8678.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2018 Jun 30 21h24 UT by Patrick Ditz


(Copyright Patrick Ditz)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)17.4
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 3.759 AU
d (dist/Earth) 4.313 AU
Right ascension10 25 28.44 h m s
Declination+34 58 53.2 ° ' "
MPC report
COD K97
CON P. Ditz [patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr]
OBS P. Ditz
MEA P. Ditz
TEL 0.20-m f/7.45 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport C/2018 A3 2018/06/30
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK18A030  C2018 06 30.89158 10 25 28.44 +34 58 53.2          17.3 N      K97
    CK18A030  C2018 06 30.89445 10 25 28.42 +34 58 53.2          17.3 N      K97
    CK18A030  C2018 06 30.90019 10 25 28.38 +34 58 53.8          17.5 N      K97
    CK18A030  C2018 06 30.90306 10 25 28.19 +34 58 53.9          17.6 N      K97
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT200 F/D 7.45
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length1490 mm
Instrument focale/diameter7.45
Filter(s)L
CameraATIK 460 EX
SensorCCD
Sensor size12.5x10.0 mm2
Sensor pixels number2749x2199
Sensor temperature-10 °C
Binning3x3
MountVMA300
AutoguideYes
Exposure total time1200 s
Exposure details5x240s
Moon phase11 °
Moon elongation152 °
Air mass2.3
Observatory MPC codeK97
Location67130 Freconrupt
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.26 "/pix
Image processingPRISM
Observation submission date2018 Jul 01 08h00m28s
Observation modification date2018 Jul 01 08h03m50s

(Record n° 19284)

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