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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Feb 08 20h05 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Nuclear magnitude (m2)10.7
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m27.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 1.297 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.906 AU
Right ascension01 58 36.10 h m s
Declination+45 09 03.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS A. Klotz ; F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/4 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.02.08 22:39:26
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2015 02 08.83677 01 58 36.10 +45 09 03.3          10.8 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 02 08.84505 01 58 35.05 +45 09 22.1          10.7 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 02 08.85530 01 58 33.81 +45 09 45.6          10.6 N      A77
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length800 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4
Filter(s)R (RGB)
CameraST2000XM
SensorCCD
Sensor size13.4x9.5 mm2
Sensor pixels number1600x1200
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure total time930 s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.87 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Feb 08 22h40m53s
Observation modification date2015 Feb 08 22h52m51s

(Record n° 13375)

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