C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13374)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 08 23h05 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac
(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5 Aperture radius used for m1 10 ' Coma diameter 20 ' Tail length 0.66 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 60 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.333 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.469 AU Instrument L150 F/7 Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 150 mm Instrument focale length 1095 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.3 Filter(s) None Camera STL 11000 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 4008x2672 Binning 1x1 Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 300 s Exposure details 10x30sec Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 3 Air mass 1.4 Location Espagne Reference stars catalog Hipparcos V mag Used softwares PRISM Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.7 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Feb 07 17h55m05s