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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Jan 10 17h48 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)10.4
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.325 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.474 AU
Right ascension03 56 48.74 h m s
Declination+04 23 30.6 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.01.11 07:45:31
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 10.74160 03 56 48.74 +04 23 30.6          10.3 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 10.75215 03 56 44.59 +04 25 04.1          10.5 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 10.76342 03 56 40.15 +04 26 45.1          10.5 N      A77
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)R (RGB)
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor size13.4x9.5 mm2
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure total time1200 s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor0.7
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.87 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Jan 11 07h46m34s
Observation modification date2015 Jan 11 08h28m08s

(Record n° 13235)

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