C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13373)
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 m1 15 ' Coma diameter 15 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 1.33 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 85 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.305 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.529 AU Instrument type Camera lens Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 45 mm Instrument focale length 135 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Camera Atik 16 HR Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 1392x1040 Binning 1x1 Mount HeQ5 Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 3600 s Exposure details 60x1min Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4.5 Seeing 3 Air mass 1.4 Location Aubagne Reference stars catalog Hipparcos V mag Used softwares PRISM Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 10 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 06 23h56m11s