C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13551)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Mar 26 19h41 UT by Francois Kugel
(Copyright Francois Kugel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.2 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 3.95 " r (dist/Sun) 1.528 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.698 AU Right ascension 01 23 20.03 h m s Declination +63 52 40.1 ° ' " MPC report COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.03.26 22:45:06
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2015 03 26.82018 01 23 20.03 +63 52 40.1 12.1 N A77
CK14Q020 C2015 03 26.82412 01 23 19.97 +63 52 44.9 12.1 N A77
CK14Q020 C2015 03 26.82852 01 23 20.06 +63 52 49.2 12.3 N A77
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Meade MCMT-TDM Exposure details 5X20S Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Image resize factor 0.3 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.79 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Mar 26 22h47m53s Observation modification date 2015 Mar 28 06h50m01s