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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2014 Dec 22 23h46 UT by Joel Nicolas


(Copyright Joel Nicolas)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)6.9
Nuclear magnitude (m2)10
Aperture radius used for m211.2 "
Coma diameter5.8 '
Afrho3695 cm
Afrho error185 cm
Afrho URL for more infoCal_Afrho= 4874 cm ; 5472 cm rho=10000km
r (dist/Sun) 1.417 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.627 AU
Right ascension06 05 20.31 h m s
Declination-33 46 44.5 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.12.25 10:48:00
AC2 nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 22.99053 06 05 20.31 -33 46 44.5          10.0 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 22.99184 06 05 19.86 -33 46 39.5          10.0 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 22.99319 06 05 19.30 -33 46 33.2          10.0 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 22.99456 06 05 18.79 -33 46 27.9          10.0 N      A77
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)410 mm
Instrument focale length1353 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.3
Filter(s)I Bessel
CameraST8XME
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-30 °C
Binning1x1
Exposure details21*10s
Air mass4.57
Observatory MPC codeA77
Location04 Dauban
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.8 "/pix
Observation submission date2014 Dec 25 10h52m59s
Observation modification date2015 Feb 02 12h01m45s

(Record n° 13158)

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