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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 05 03h50 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)8
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)12
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 0.658 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.639 AU
Right ascension22 21 56.26 h m s
Declination+20 16 41.3 ° ' "
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 2017.04.05 06:29:36
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 05.15974 22 21 56.26 +20 16 41.3          12.0 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 05.16229 22 21 57.92 +20 17 02.7          11.9 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 05.16485 22 21 59.54 +20 17 23.4           8.0 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)None
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details45x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.74
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Apr 05 07h28m02s
Observation modification date2017 Apr 05 07h37m34s

(Record n° 17411)

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