C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 14825)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 11 00h09 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac
(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5 Tail length 0.16 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 60 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.322 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.478 AU Instrument type Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 318 mm Instrument focale length 2540 mm Instrument focale/diameter 7.98 Filter(s) None Camera STL-6303 Sensor CCD Sensor size 3072x2048 mm2 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 780 s Exposure details 13x60s Moon phase 80 ° Moon elongation 120 ° Air mass 1.83 Observatory MPC code I89 Location Nerpio Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.73 "/pix Image processing gradient rotationnel 25° Observation submission date 2015 Dec 06 00h24m54s