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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 8043.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Feb 13 03h08 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac


(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)5.5
Aperture radius used for m114 '
Coma diameter14 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)5
Tail length0.5 °
Tail position angle (PA)50 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.307 AU
d (dist/Earth) 1.004 AU
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)250 mm
Instrument focale length850 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.4
Filter(s)None
SensorCCD
Sensor pixels number2184x1472
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning1x1
MotorizationYes
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time600 s
Exposure details10x60sec
Moon phase108 °
Moon elongation136 °
Air mass1.4
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 10h48m47s

(Record n° 14893)

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