C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 17407)
Orbital period : 17872.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Mar 30 03h55 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 7.9 Aperture radius used for m1 3.0 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 12.7 Aperture radius used for m2 4.0 " Coma diameter 6 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 6 r (dist/Sun) 0.753 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.606 AU Right ascension 21 19 52 h m s Declination +04 51 23 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony A7S Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount néant Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 22.9 s Exposure details 21x1/4+30x1/2+8x1/3s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 3 Air mass 4 Location Blieux (04) Reference stars catalog Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing somme et retrait de gradient sous IRIS, recentrage des 3 séries sur la comète Remarks or comments Nord vers PA~15° Observation submission date 2017 Apr 04 19h30m35s