C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 12538)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Sep 14 08h37 UT by Jean-Gabriel Bosch
(Copyright Jean-Gabriel Bosch)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.8 Aperture radius used for m2 5.6 " Tail position angle
(PA) 200 ° r (dist/Sun) 2.337 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.471 AU Right ascension 07 27 25.94 h m s Declination -41 34 48.7 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-G Bosch
MEA J.-G Bosch
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.09.14 09:41:05
AC2 jean-gabriel.bosch@unige.ch
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2014 09 14.35889 07 27 25.94 -41 34 48.7 14.8 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 09 14.38029 07 27 27.53 -41 34 50.0 14.8 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) None Camera QHY9 Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Paramount Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure details 29x1mn Air mass 2.5 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro Atacama Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix URL for more information or pictures http://transitionsciel.blogspot.fr/ Observation submission date 2014 Sep 14 11h43m56s Observation modification date 2014 Sep 14 15h14m59s