C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 17433)
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 m2 4 " Coma diameter 3 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 7 Tail length 0.2 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 290 ° r (dist/Sun) 0.629 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.668 AU Right ascension 22 43 33 h m s Declination +24 31 00 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T407mm f/D 4.3 Dobson 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 4240*2832 Sensor temperature 5 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 21.4 s Exposure details 78*1/4+15*1/8sec Power magnification 72 X Magnitude visual estimation method
(ICQ code) S Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5 Seeing 2 Air mass 4 Location Crespières Reference stars catalog Tycho Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing sommes recentrées sur la comète (5 séries étalées sur 14 à 35 secondes) et retrait gradient sous IRIS Remarks or comments Nord vers PA 33° sur l'image
Magnitude m1 = magnitude visuelle T407x72
m1 = 7.9 sur photométrie de 4' d'ouverture Observation submission date 2017 Apr 07 14h50m04s