C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 15056)
Orbital period : 8043.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Sep 30 19h15 UT by Jean-Francois Coliac
(Copyright Jean-Francois Coliac)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.5 Nuclear magnitude (m2) 15.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5 " r (dist/Sun) 3.447 AU d (dist/Earth) 3.740 AU Instrument type Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 431 mm Instrument focale length 2939 mm Instrument focale/diameter 6.81 Filter(s) None Camera SBIG STL 11000 Sensor CCD Sensor pixels number 2004x1336 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 600 s Exposure details 10x60s Moon phase 21 ° Moon elongation 126 ° Air mass 1.6 Observatory MPC code I89 Location Nerpio Reference stars catalog UCAC-4 Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Image resize factor 1 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2016 Jan 15 20h39m48s