C/2021 C3 (Catalina) (Record n° 23075)
Orbital period : 502.70 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2021 Mar 16 21h39 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 16.5 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.303 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.327 AU Right ascension 12 12 14.55 h m s Declination +14 57 02.4 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON J.-G. Bosch [JGBosch@free.fr]
OBS F. Kugel, J.-G.Bosch
MEA J.-G. Bosch
TEL 0.4-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2021.03.17 15:31:19
AC2 JGBosch@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK21C030 KC2021 03 16.90229 12 12 14.55 +14 57 02.4 16.7 R A77
CK21C030 KC2021 03 16.92400 12 12 10.35 +14 58 19.2 16.3 R A77
Instrument NEWTON Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1120 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.8 Camera Atik 460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade-MCMT-TDM Exposure details 60x15s Observatory MPC code A77 Location Obs Dauban Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2021 Mar 17 15h44m23s Observation modification date 2021 Mar 18 15h37m48s