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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 04 03h47 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)7.5
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)11.8
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 0.674 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.628 AU
Right ascension22 11 12.39 h m s
Declination+17 56 11.1 ° ' "
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 2017.04.04 07:36:58
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 04.15738 22 11 12.39 +17 56 11.1          11.8 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 04.16216 22 11 15.49 +17 56 52.1          11.8 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 04.16709 22 11 18.58 +17 57 35.1           7.5 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
Binning2x2
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details3x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.73
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Apr 04 07h47m59s
Observation modification date2017 Apr 04 08h01m31s

(Record n° 17406)

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