C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) (Record n° 28408)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2024 Apr 20 00h05 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.6 Aperture radius used for m1 1 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.4 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 1.4 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 Tail length 0.03 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 90 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.912 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.916 AU 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 Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera SONY alpha7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 6 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 29.6 s Exposure details 71/4+19/3+30/5 s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4.5 Seeing 3 Moon phase 60 ° Moon elongation 50 ° Air mass 1.5 Location Versailles Reference stars catalog APASS Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing binning, flat, alignement, alignement comète, somme, retrait gradient Observation submission date 2024 Apr 20 23h01m41s