3I/ATLAS (Record n° 30912)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Jan 20 19h57 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 m2 standard deviation 0.0 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 3.266 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.285 AU Right ascension 08 21 22.08 h m s Declination +17 04 54.5 ° ' " MPC report COD K97
CON P.Ditz
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.54-m f/3.75 reflector + CCD
NUM 3
ACK MPCReport CodK97-PDI #0003I obs2026-01-20 (L_69x30s_bin2) file updated 2026.01.21 15:10:36
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr,pat.ditz@gmx.fr
0003I KC2026 01 20.83152 08 21 22.08 +17 04 54.5 15.1 V K97
0003I KC2026 01 20.84084 08 21 20.14 +17 05 00.3 15.1 V K97
0003I KC2026 01 20.85016 08 21 18.18 +17 05 06.1 15.1 V K97
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T540 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 540 mm Instrument focale length 2025 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.75 Filter(s) L Camera Atik 460EX Sensor CCD Sensor size 10x12.5 mm2 Sensor pixels number 2749x2199 Sensor temperature -10 °C Binning 2x2 Mount VMA300 Exposure total time 1530 s Exposure details 51x30s Air mass 1.8 Observatory MPC code K97 Location Freconrupt Reference stars catalog ATLAS2
Used softwares Tycho Tracker Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.93 "/pix Image processing Prism11 & Gimp Observation submission date 2026 Jan 23 11h19m52s Observation modification date 2026 Jan 23 11h25m13s