C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13267)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 15 21h51 UT by Philippe Roux
(Copyright Philippe Roux)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 4.05 Nuclear magnitude (m2) 8.45 Coma diameter 25 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 4 Tail length 1 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 71 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.310 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.507 AU Right ascension 03 25 39 h m s Declination +16 17 40 ° ' " Instrument maksutov 300mm F/5.6 Instrument type Camera lens Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 54 mm Instrument focale length 300 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.55 Camera CANON EOS 350D Sensor DC Sensor size 22.2x14.8 mm2 Sensor pixels number 3456x2304 Sensor temperature 7 °C Mount LX50 Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 2760 s Exposure details 30x92s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 4 Location PLOUMILLIAU 22300 FRANCE Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 4.4 "/pix Image processing soustraction de la moyenne de 5 darks URL for more information or pictures http://www.astrosurf.com/rouxph/index.html Remarks or comments catalogue d'étoiles utilisé sky2000 Observation submission date 2015 Jan 17 10h40m58s Observation modification date 2015 Jan 17 10h47m41s