3I/ATLAS (Record n° 31064)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Mar 09 20h59 UT by Patrick Ditz
(Copyright Patrick Ditz)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 18.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " r (dist/Sun) 4.849 AU d (dist/Earth) 4.348 AU Right ascension 06 54 16.15 h m s Declination +20 13 57.8 ° ' " MPC report COD K97
CON P.Ditz
OBS P.Ditz
MEA P.Ditz
TEL 0.54-m f/3.75 reflector + CCD
NUM 2
ACK MPCReport CodK97-PDI #0003I obs2026-03-09 (L_11x120s)_bin2 file updated 2026.03.10 09:58:45
NET ATLAS2
AC2 patrick.ditz@wanadoo.fr,pat.ditz@gmx.fr
0003I KC2026 03 09.87482 06 54 16.15 +20 13 57.8 18.0 V K97
0003I KC2026 03 09.88350 06 54 15.73 +20 13 58.3 18.2 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 1320 s Exposure details 11x120s Air mass 1.2 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 Remarks or comments Comète difficile à observer Observation submission date 2026 Mar 10 10h39m55s Observation modification date 2026 Mar 10 10h41m52s