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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Jan 10 18h24 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)8.9
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m227 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.325 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.474 AU
Right ascension03 56 38.72 h m s
Declination+04 27 14.0 ° ' "
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 2015.01.11 07:12:05
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 10.76693 03 56 38.72 +04 27 14.0           8.9 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 10.77099 03 56 37.16 +04 27 50.7           8.9 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 10.77503 03 56 35.55 +04 28 25.8           9.0 N      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 time75 s
Exposure details5x15s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor0.4
Resulting picture sampling (scale)5.5 "/pix
Remarks or commentsTail 4 degres
Observation submission date2015 Jan 11 07h39m33s
Observation modification date2015 Jan 11 07h42m54s

(Record n° 13234)

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