C/2017 S3 (PANSTARRS) (Record n° 19355)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2018 Jul 19 00h43 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 7.8 Aperture radius used for m1 3.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.2 Aperture radius used for m2 6.0 " Coma diameter 6.0 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.33 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 300 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.853 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.101 AU Right ascension 04 58 28.4 h m s Declination +55 32 15 ° ' " 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 sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 98 s Exposure details 41*2+4*4sec Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 4 Moon phase 100 ° Moon elongation 110 ° Air mass 2.5 Location Boulonville (28) Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing alignement, somme, retrait gradient
alignement 2 séries de 40 et 48s sur la comète - turbulence importante Remarks or comments magnitudes totales (pour dia 5') R/G/B = 9.7 / 7.4 / 7.6
(RA/Dec corrigés le 23/07) Observation submission date 2018 Jul 19 15h58m01s Observation modification date 2018 Jul 23 11h55m22s