C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13069)
Orbital period : 14154.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Dec 17 02h07 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 11.2 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 18.6 " Tail length 0.25 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 345 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.449 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.717 AU Right ascension 06 38 51.58 h m s Declination -39 00 08.9 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/2.1 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.12.17 05:28:17
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
CK14Q020 C2014 12 17.08837 06 38 51.58 -39 00 08.9 11.1 N A77
CK14Q020 C2014 12 17.09560 06 38 49.31 -38 57 45.0 11.2 N A77
Instrument type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 420 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.1 Filter(s) R (RGB) Camera ST8300 Sensor CCD Sensor size 18x24 mm2 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount HEQ5pro Exposure total time 50 s Exposure details 5x10s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.66 "/pix Remarks or comments Bad astrometry : The first is off by ~5" in Decl., the second by ~132" in Decl. Observation submission date 2014 Dec 17 05h36m13s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 18 18h30m09s