C/2024 J3 (ATLAS) (Record n° 31853)
Perihelion distance : 3.87 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 76 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 11 19h46 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.7 Aperture radius for m2 7.7 " Magnitude band Rc r (dist/Sun) 3.921 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.613 AU Right ascension 277.75119 ° Declination +42.98983 ° ADES report
# version=2017
# observatory
! mpcCode A77
# submitter
! name J. Nicolas
# observers
! name J. Nicolas
# measurers
! name J. Nicolas
# telescope
! design reflector
! aperture 0.41
! fRatio 3.3
! detector CCD
# software
! astrometry Tycho 12.7
! photometry Tycho 12.7
permID |provID |trkSub |mode|stn |obsTime |ra |dec |rmsRA|rmsDec|rmsFit|astCat |mag |rmsMag|band|photCat |photAp|logSNR|exp |notes|remarks
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0101| CCD|A77 |2026-09-11T19:46:16Z |277.75119 |+42.98983 |0.25 |0.16 |0.30 | ATLAS2|14.6 |0.02 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.15 | 600| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0101| CCD|A77 |2026-09-11T19:58:49Z |277.74997 |+42.98946 |0.25 |0.16 |0.29 | ATLAS2|14.6 |0.02 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.12 | 600| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0101| CCD|A77 |2026-09-11T20:10:42Z |277.74884 |+42.98907 |0.24 |0.15 |0.29 | ATLAS2|14.7 |0.02 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.10 | 600| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0101| CCD|A77 |2026-09-11T20:21:59Z |277.74773 |+42.98871 |0.23 |0.15 |0.28 | ATLAS2|14.7 |0.01 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.01 | 540| K|
Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Newton Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 410 mm Instrument focale length 1353 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.3 Filter None Camera ST8XME Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 9*60s Air mass 1.10 Observatory MPC code A77 Location 04 Dauban Reference stars catalog (ast) ATLAS2 Reference stars catalog (phot) ATLAS2 Used softwares Tycho Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.4 "/pix Observation submission date 2026 Sep 12 08h34m08s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 12 08h38m26s