C/2024 J3 (ATLAS) (Record n° 31879)
Perihelion distance : 3.87 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 76 °
Eccentricity : 1
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2026 Sep 17 19h29 UT by Joel Nicolas
(Copyright Joel Nicolas)Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.8 Aperture radius for m2 7.7 " Magnitude band Rc r (dist/Sun) 3.913 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.649 AU Right ascension 277.09448 ° Declination +42.70765 ° 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 | ABC0136| CCD|A77 |2026-09-17T19:29:14Z |277.09448 |+42.70765 |0.06 |0.11 |0.13 | ATLAS2|14.9 |0.05 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.11 | 675| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0136| CCD|A77 |2026-09-17T19:43:49Z |277.09402 |+42.70720 |0.08 |0.10 |0.13 | ATLAS2|14.8 |0.01 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.16 | 750| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0136| CCD|A77 |2026-09-17T19:58:09Z |277.09264 |+42.70659 |0.06 |0.10 |0.12 | ATLAS2|14.8 |0.01 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.15 | 750| K|
|C/2024 J3 | ABC0136| CCD|A77 |2026-09-17T20:12:30Z |277.09180 |+42.70608 |0.06 |0.09 |0.11 | ATLAS2|14.8 |0.03 | Rc| ATLAS2| 7.7 |2.17 | 750| 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 675 s Exposure details 30*75s Air mass 1.4 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 17 21h27m16s Observation modification date 2026 Sep 18 06h06m53s