C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 12487)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Sep 05 08h50 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.433 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.593 AU Right ascension 07 15 33.73 h m s Declination -41 30 20.7 ° ' " 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 2014.09.05 14:10:14
AC2 thierrynoel38@free.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2014 09 05.36794 07 15 33.73 -41 30 20.7 15.0 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 09 05.39672 07 15 36.08 -41 30 21.0 15.1 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 Mount Paramount Autoguide Yes Exposure details 46x1mn 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, crop) Observation submission date 2014 Sep 05 14h17m17s Observation modification date 2014 Sep 05 22h15m08s