C/2017 S3 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 19349)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Jul 18 02h08 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 8.0 Aperture radius used for m1 2.5 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.0 Aperture radius used for m2 4 " Coma diameter 5.0 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 0.2 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 310 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.876 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.127 AU Right ascension 05 09 38.4 h m s Declination +56 03 52.0 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson T407mm F/D=4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount Dosbson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 18.3 s Exposure details 60*1/4+10*1/3s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 2 Moon phase 111 ° Moon elongation 100 ° Air mass 1.9 Location Versailles Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing alignement, somme, retrait gradient (conversion niveaux de gris pour magnitudes) Remarks or comments Nord en PA=80°
Magnitudes R/V/B = 10.3/7.4/7.9 Observation submission date 2018 Jul 18 14h07m36s