C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 12545)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Sep 15 08h51 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 13.3 Aperture radius used for m1 1.72 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5.5 " r (dist/Sun) 2.327 AU d (dist/Earth) 2.457 AU Right ascension 07 28 41.92 h m s Declination -41 35 49.1 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.09.15
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2014 09 15.36841 07 28 41.92 -41 35 49.1 14.9 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 09 15.37148 07 28 42.14 -41 35 49.6 15.2 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 09 15.37530 07 28 42.44 -41 35 50.2 15.1 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) I Bessel Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -40 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 10 x 60s Moon elongation 70 ° Air mass 1.49 Observatory MPC code W96 Location Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Sep 15 11h53m55s Observation modification date 2014 Sep 15 13h57m54s