C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 12413)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Aug 29 08h21 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.508 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.682 AU Right ascension 07 05 36.88 h m s Declination -41 32 44.2 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.08.29 13:57:52
AC2 thierrynoel1@laposte.net
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2014 08 29.34820 07 05 36.88 -41 32 44.2 15.2 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 08 29.36626 07 05 38.39 -41 32 43.3 15.3 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Autoguide No Exposure details 20x1mn Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica (-dark, add), Iris (levels, ddp, crop) Observation submission date 2014 Aug 29 14h06m05s Observation modification date 2014 Aug 30 00h51m01s