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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Mar 29 04h16 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9.1
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
Coma diameter7 '
r (dist/Sun) 0.770 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.609 AU
Right ascension21 10 19.98 h m s
Declination+02 10 38.6 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.03.29 06:52:35
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET Gaia DR1
    CK17E040 KC2017 03 29.17788 21 10 19.98 +02 10 38.6          13.0 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 03 29.17966 21 10 21.01 +02 10 57.0          12.9 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 03 29.18143 21 10 22.00 +02 11 13.6           9.1 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)None
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details9x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogGaia DR1
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Mar 29 06h56m38s
Observation modification date2017 Mar 29 12h32m25s

(Record n° 17373)

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