C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 14892)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 11 03h09 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac
(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5.3 Aperture radius used for m1 5.3 ' Coma diameter 18 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 Tail length 0.5 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 58 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.303 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.965 AU Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 250 mm Instrument focale length 850 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3.4 Filter(s) None Camera SBIG ST10 Sensor CCD Sensor size 2184x1472 mm2 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 10x60sec Moon phase 72 ° Moon elongation 143 ° Air mass 1.3 Observatory MPC code HO6 Location Mayhill Reference stars catalog UCAC-4 Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Image resize factor 0.55 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Dec 15 10h43m40s