C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13245)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 13 01h20 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 6.9 Aperture radius used for m1 0.83 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 8.3 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.9 " Afrho 6619 cm Afrho error 100 cm r (dist/Sun) 1.316 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.490 AU Right ascension 03 42 18.26 h m s Declination +09 57 54.6 ° ' " 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 2015.01.13 02:50:14
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2015 01 13.05545 03 42 18.26 +09 57 54.6 8.3 N W96
CK14Q020 C2015 01 13.05886 03 42 16.97 +09 58 23.1 8.4 N W96
CK14Q020 C2015 01 13.06250 03 42 15.63 +09 58 53.6 8.1 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 -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 30 x 15s Moon elongation 142 ° Air mass 1.20 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 2015 Jan 13 04h04m33s Observation modification date 2015 Jan 13 09h02m12s