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C/2020 M3 (ATLAS)

Orbital period : 139.60 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2020 Sep 27 03h42 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)10.9
Aperture radius used for m10.4 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)15
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m25.8 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.337 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.565 AU
Right ascension04 12 22.02 h m s
Declination-33 24 41.7 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@free.fr]
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
ACK A77 file updated 2020.09.27 07:40:29
AC2 fkugel@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK20M030  C2020 09 27.15447 04 12 22.02 -33 24 41.7          14.8 V      A77
    CK20M030  C2020 09 27.15894 04 12 22.66 -33 24 38.8          10.9 T      A77
    CK20M030  C2020 09 27.16339 04 12 23.47 -33 24 35.4          15.1 V      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1120 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.8
Filter(s)None
CameraAtik460ex
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade-MCMT-TDM
Exposure details8x45s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Resulting picture sampling (scale)0.83 "/pix
Remarks or commentsBad seeing, Mistral
Observation submission date2020 Sep 27 07h45m58s
Observation modification date2020 Sep 29 08h04m41s

(Record n° 22430)

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