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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2014 Dec 25 22h07 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)6.5
Aperture radius used for m11.325 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)10.5
Aperture radius used for m213.25 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.399 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.579 AU
Right ascension05 46 27.58 h m s
Declination-30 00 50.8 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/2.1 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.12.26 06:37:33
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 25.92129 05 46 27.58 -30 00 50.8          10.5 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 25.92827 05 46 24.73 -30 00 14.3          10.5 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 25.93568 05 46 21.71 -29 59 36.4          10.5 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 25.95927 05 46 12.17 -29 57 33.0          10.6 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 25.96338 05 46 10.57 -29 57 12.2           6.5 T      A77
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length420 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.1
Filter(s)R (RGB)
CameraST8300
SensorCCD
Sensor size18x24 mm2
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
MountHEQ5pro
Exposure total time180 s
Exposure details9x20s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)5.3 "/pix
Observation submission date2014 Dec 26 06h54m43s
Observation modification date2014 Dec 27 07h19m39s

(Record n° 13169)

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