C/2018 A3 (ATLAS) (Record n° 19284)
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 deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 7.5 " r (dist/Sun) 3.759 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.313 AU Right ascension 10 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 configuration Config1 Instrument T200 F/D 7.45 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1490 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.45 Filter(s) L Camera ATIK 460 EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 12.5x10.0 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 3x3 Mount VMA300 Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1200 s Exposure details 5x240s Moon phase 11 ° Moon elongation 152 ° Air mass 2.3 Observatory MPC code K97 Location 67130 Freconrupt Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.26 "/pix Image processing PRISM Observation submission date 2018 Jul 01 08h00m28s Observation modification date 2018 Jul 01 08h03m50s