C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) (Record n° 22382)
Perihelion distance : 0.29 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 129 °
Orbital period : 6257 years
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2020 Aug 23 20h15 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 8.4 Aperture radius for m1 4.0 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 12.7 Aperture radius for m2 10 " Coma diameter 8.2 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 3 Tail length 0.33 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 50 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.269 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.426 AU Right ascension 212.2725 ° Declination +1.35556 ° 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 16 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur Table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 36 s Exposure details 14x2+2x4s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 2 Moon phase 90 ° Air mass 2 Location Valdrôme (26) Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement, somme, retrait gradient résiduel Observation submission date 2020 Sep 07 15h16m50s