C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 17377)
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 m1 0.8 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 13.1 m2 standard deviation 0.2 Aperture radius used for m2 8 " Coma diameter 8.5 ' r (dist/Sun) 0.753 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.606 AU Right ascension 21 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 configuration Config2 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 1200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 3 Filter(s) None Camera Atik460EX Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 1x1 Exposure details 16x30s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog Gaia DR1
Image resize factor 0.73 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.6 "/pix Observation submission date 2017 Mar 30 07h08m16s Observation modification date 2017 Mar 30 15h04m07s