C/2021 A1 (Leonard) (Record n° 23914)
Perihelion distance : 0.61 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 133 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2021 Sep 05 20h34 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.2 Aperture radius for m1 0.5 ' Magnitude (MPC m2) 16.0 Aperture radius for m2 6 " Coma diameter 0.8 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 r (dist/Sun) 2.227 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.991 AU Right ascension 164.46042 ° Declination +40.76083 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Filter None Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 19 °C Binning 2x2 Mount dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 170 s Exposure details 16*1.6s+36*2s+13*2.5s+8*5s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 2 Moon phase 180 ° Moon elongation 40 ° Air mass 4 Location Boulonville Reference stars catalog (ast) APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning,flat,alignement,somme,retrait gradient Remarks or comments image passée en niveaux de gris (visu log), fond de ciel très brillant (ver horizon pollué). Incertitude 0.2mag ou un peu plus Observation submission date 2021 Sep 06 12h16m23s