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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Feb 09 03h05 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac


(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)5.2
Coma diameter12 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)5
Tail length0.5 °
Tail position angle (PA)62 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.299 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.926 AU
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)250 mm
Instrument focale length850 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.4
Filter(s)None
CameraST10
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number2184x1472
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details10x60sec
Moon phase80 °
Moon elongation140 °
Air mass1.4
Observatory MPC codeH06
LocationNew Mexico
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresPRISM
Image resize factor0.55
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Dec 06 16h31m01s

(Record n° 14829)

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