C/2021 C3 (Catalina) (Record n° 23124)
Orbital period : 502.70 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2021 Mar 24 20h30 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 17.3 m2 standard deviation 0.3 Aperture radius used for m2 5.8 " r (dist/Sun) 2.319 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.370 AU Right ascension 11 46 13.52 h m s Declination +22 15 05.9 ° ' " 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 2021.03.25 17:28:37
AC2 JGBosch@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK21C030 KC2021 03 24.85407 11 46 13.52 +22 15 05.9 17.0 R A77
CK21C030 KC2021 03 24.87609 11 46 09.08 +22 16 13.2 17.6 R A77
Instrument NEWTON Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1120 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.8 Filter(s) None Camera Atik 460ex Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade-MCMT-TDM Exposure details 80x15s Observatory MPC code A77 Location Obs. Dauban A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.83 "/pix Observation submission date 2021 Mar 25 17h31m53s Observation modification date 2021 Mar 28 21h30m23s