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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

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 m15.3 '
Coma diameter18 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)5
Tail length0.5 °
Tail position angle (PA)58 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.303 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.965 AU
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)250 mm
Instrument focale length850 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.4
Filter(s)None
CameraSBIG ST10
SensorCCD
Sensor size2184x1472 mm2
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details10x60sec
Moon phase72 °
Moon elongation143 °
Air mass1.3
Observatory MPC codeHO6
LocationMayhill
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Image resize factor0.55
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Dec 15 10h43m40s

(Record n° 14892)

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