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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 17 03h35 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9.5
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.4
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 0.517 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.908 AU
Right ascension00 24 59.76 h m s
Declination+36 00 13.6 ° ' "
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 2017.04.17 06:43:43
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 17.14948 00 24 59.76 +36 00 13.6          13.2 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 17.15105 00 25 00.62 +36 00 16.6          13.6 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 17.15262 00 25 01.53 +36 00 17.4           9.5 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 details5x20s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor1
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Apr 17 06h47m44s
Observation modification date2017 Apr 17 07h27m03s

(Record n° 17530)

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