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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 03 03h56 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1) 7.4
Aperture radius used for m10.4 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m25.5 "
r (dist/Sun) 0.689 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.619 AU
Right ascension22 00 40.35 h m s
Declination+15 29 31.1 ° ' "
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 2017.04.03 07:53:42
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 03.16418 22 00 40.35 +15 29 31.1           7.4 T      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 03.16690 22 00 42.19 +15 29 59.2          12.0 N      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 details32x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.73
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Apr 03 07h59m43s
Observation modification date2017 Apr 03 08h24m49s

(Record n° 17397)

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