C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13313)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 22 20h36 UT by Philippe Roux
(Copyright Philippe Roux)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5.8 Aperture radius used for m1 1.3 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 9.6 Aperture radius used for m2 12 " Coma condensation degree
(DC) 4 r (dist/Sun) 1.296 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.597 AU Right ascension 02 51 11 h m s Declination +28 38 07 ° ' " Instrument LX50 8" Instrument type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1260 mm Instrument focale/diameter 6.3 Camera CANON EOS 350D Sensor DC Sensor size 22.2x14.8 mm2 Sensor pixels number 3456x2304 Sensor temperature 5 °C Mount LX50 Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 3x200 Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 4 Location PLOUMILLIAU 22300 FRANCE Reference stars catalog GSC (HST) Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.05 "/pix Image processing soustraction moyenne de 5 darks URL for more information or pictures http://www.astrosurf.com/rouxph/index.html Remarks or comments séquence de poses longues avorté suite à problèmes techniques sur minuteur. Observation submission date 2015 Jan 24 22h57m38s