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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Jan 17 22h30 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac


(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)4.3
Aperture radius used for m115 '
Coma diameter15 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)5
Tail length1.33 °
Tail position angle (PA)85 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.305 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.529 AU
Instrument typeCamera lens
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)45 mm
Instrument focale length135 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
CameraAtik 16 HR
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number1392x1040
Binning1x1
MountHeQ5
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time3600 s
Exposure details60x1min
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)4.5
Seeing3
Air mass1.4
LocationAubagne
Reference stars catalogHipparcos V mag
Used softwaresPRISM
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)10 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Feb 06 23h56m11s

(Record n° 13373)

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