C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) (Record n° 22234)
Perihelion distance : 0.29 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 129 °
Orbital period : 6257 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2020 Jul 28 22h13 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5.3 Aperture radius for m1 4.5 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 10.3 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 7.5 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 4 Tail length 1 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 70 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.740 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.725 AU Right ascension 180.14 ° Declination +33.82833 ° 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 Filter None Camera Sony alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Sensor temperature 13 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur Table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 47 s Exposure details 6*2s+15*1.6s+11*1s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 4 Moon phase 71 ° Air mass 2 Location Crespières Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement somme.
3 séries alignées sur la comète, photométrie sur la 3e (poses plus courtes) Observation submission date 2020 Aug 03 20h59m27s