C/2024 J3 (ATLAS) (Record n° 31870)
Perihelion distance : 3.87 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 76 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 14 19h20 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.8 Aperture radius for m2 7.7 " Magnitude band Rc r (dist/Sun) 3.917 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.631 AU Right ascension 277.39437 ° Declination +42.85335 ° 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 | ABC0121| CCD|A77 |2026-09-14T19:19:46Z |277.39437 |+42.85335 |0.08 |0.10 |0.13 | ATLAS2|14.9 |0.04 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.06 | 600| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0121| CCD|A77 |2026-09-14T19:34:04Z |277.39357 |+42.85293 |0.10 |0.18 |0.20 | ATLAS2|14.7 |0.01 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.12 | 600| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0121| CCD|A77 |2026-09-14T19:46:30Z |277.39292 |+42.85260 |0.09 |0.16 |0.18 | ATLAS2|14.7 |0.01 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.13 | 600| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0121| CCD|A77 |2026-09-14T19:58:21Z |277.39196 |+42.85221 |0.08 |0.15 |0.17 | ATLAS2|14.7 |0.01 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.13 | 600| 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 10*60s Air mass 1.2 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 15 13h56m12s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 15 13h57m25s