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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Jan 17 18h47 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)10.7
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.305 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.529 AU
Right ascension03 15 30.03 h m s
Declination+20 03 19.9 ° ' "
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 2015.01.17 22:46:15
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 17.78283 03 15 30.03 +20 03 19.9          10.7 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 17.80740 03 15 22.05 +20 06 10.5          10.7 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 17.83356 03 15 13.79 +20 09 11.0          10.8 N      A77
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)RGB
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor size13.4x9.5 mm2
Sensor pixels number1600x1200
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure total time1260 s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.87 "/pix
Image processingGR30
Observation submission date2015 Jan 17 22h52m21s
Observation modification date2015 Jan 21 19h12m53s

(Record n° 13271)

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