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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Mar 30 04h11 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)8.5
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.1
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
Coma diameter8.5 '
r (dist/Sun) 0.753 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.606 AU
Right ascension21 19 58.67 h m s
Declination+04 53 23.3 ° ' "
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 2017.03.30 07:05:51
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET Gaia DR1
    CK17E040 KC2017 03 30.17438 21 19 58.67 +04 53 23.3          12.9 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 03 30.17766 21 20 00.59 +04 53 53.5          13.2 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 03 30.18049 21 20 02.24 +04 54 22.6           8.5 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
Binning1x1
Exposure details16x30s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogGaia DR1
Image resize factor0.73
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Mar 30 07h08m16s
Observation modification date2017 Mar 30 15h04m07s

(Record n° 17377)

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