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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 16 03h37 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9
Aperture radius used for m10.4 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.4
m2 standard deviation0.0
Aperture radius used for m25.5 "
Coma diameter3 '
r (dist/Sun) 0.525 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.879 AU
Right ascension00 15 50.48 h m s
Declination+35 30 45.4 ° ' "
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 2017.04.16 06:18:11
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 16.15076 00 15 50.48 +35 30 45.4          13.4 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 16.15296 00 15 51.72 +35 30 49.0          13.4 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 16.15649 00 15 53.80 +35 30 56.9           9.0 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)None
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details5x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Apr 16 06h21m37s
Observation modification date2017 Apr 16 06h31m08s

(Record n° 17523)

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