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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 07 03h52 UT by Nicolas Biver


(Copyright Nicolas Biver)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)7.2
Nuclear magnitude (m2)11.7
Aperture radius used for m24 "
Coma diameter3 '
Coma condensation degree (DC)7
Tail length0.2 °
Tail position angle (PA)290 °
r (dist/Sun) 0.629 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.668 AU
Right ascension22 43 33 h m s
Declination+24 31 00 ° ' "
Instrumental configurationConfig1
InstrumentT407mm f/D 4.3 Dobson
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 number4240*2832
Sensor temperature5 °C
Binning2x2
MountDobson
MotorizationNo
AutoguideNo
Exposure total time21.4 s
Exposure details78*1/4+15*1/8sec
Power magnification72 X
Magnitude visual estimation method (ICQ code)S
Sky transparency (naked eye max mag)5
Seeing2
Air mass4
LocationCrespières
Reference stars catalogTycho
Used softwaresIRIS
Resulting picture sampling (scale)2 "/pix
Image processingsommes recentrées sur la comète (5 séries étalées sur 14 à 35 secondes) et retrait gradient sous IRIS
Remarks or commentsNord vers PA 33° sur l'image Magnitude m1 = magnitude visuelle T407x72 m1 = 7.9 sur photométrie de 4' d'ouverture
Observation submission date2017 Apr 07 14h50m04s

(Record n° 17433)

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