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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

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 m13.0 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12.7
Aperture radius used for m24.0 "
Coma diameter6 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)6
r (dist/Sun) 0.753 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.606 AU
Right ascension21 19 52 h m s
Declination+04 51 23 ° ' "
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentDobson 407mm F/D 4.3
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)407 mm
Instrument focale length1750 mm
Instrument focale/diameter4.29
Filter(s)None
CameraSony A7S
SensorDC
Sensor size36*24 mm2
Sensor pixels number4240x2832
Binning2x2
Mountnéant
MotorizationNo
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time22.9 s
Exposure details21x1/4+30x1/2+8x1/3s
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)6
Seeing3
Air mass4
LocationBlieux (04)
Reference stars catalogTycho-2
Used softwaresIRIS
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2.0 "/pix
Image processingsomme et retrait de gradient sous IRIS, recentrage des 3 séries sur la comète
Remarks or commentsNord vers PA~15°
Observation submission date2017 Apr 04 19h30m35s

(Record n° 17407)

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