C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13333)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 12 22h30 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac
(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5 Aperture radius used for m1 15 ' Coma diameter 20 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 0.66 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 75 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.319 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.483 AU Instrument Télé 135mm Instrument type Camera lens Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 45 mm Instrument focale length 135 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera atik 16HR Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 1392x1040 Binning 1x1 Mount HEQ5 Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 2760 s Exposure details 45X1min Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Seeing 3 Air mass 1.5 Location Aubagne Reference stars catalog Tycho Used softwares PRISM Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 9.8 "/pix Remarks or comments premières mesures cométométriques
Heure TU : milieu de pose Observation submission date 2015 Jan 26 22h55m06s