C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13087)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2014 Dec 19 03h06 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 8.3 Aperture radius used for m1 0.61 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 10.9 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.9 " Afrho 4143 cm Afrho error 153 cm r (dist/Sun) 1.436 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.680 AU Right ascension 06 28 01.30 h m s Declination -37 30 05.7 ° ' " 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 2014.12.19
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2014 12 19.12928 06 28 01.30 -37 30 05.7 10.9 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 12 19.14137 06 27 57.24 -37 29 30.8 10.8 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 12 19.15387 06 27 53.03 -37 28 54.7 10.9 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 12 19.16637 06 27 48.80 -37 28 18.4 10.8 N W96
CK14Q020 C2014 12 19.17887 06 27 44.60 -37 27 42.2 10.9 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 -35 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 120 x 30s Moon elongation 110 ° Air mass 1.15 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Dec 19 09h56m23s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 19 13h43m37s