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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 14154.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2014 Dec 21 00h01 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)6.8
Aperture radius used for m12.7 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)10.1
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m227 "
Coma diameter15 '
Tail length1.2 °
Tail position angle (PA)352.2 °
r (dist/Sun) 1.423 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.644 AU
Right ascension06 17 21.73 h m s
Declination-35 51 27.4 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.20-m f/2.1 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2014.12.21 02:16:27
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 21.00080 06 17 21.73 -35 51 27.4          10.2 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 21.01244 06 17 17.44 -35 50 50.3          10.0 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2014 12 21.01838 06 17 15.45 -35 50 26.5          10.1 N      A77
Instrument typeSchmidt-Cassegrain
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)200 mm
Instrument focale length420 mm
Instrument focale/diameter2.1
Filter(s)R (RGB)
CameraST8300
SensorCCD
Sensor size18x24 mm2
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
MountMeade MCMT
Exposure total time200 s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor0.5
Resulting picture sampling (scale)5.3 "/pix
Observation submission date2014 Dec 21 02h18m29s
Observation modification date2014 Dec 21 08h44m44s

(Record n° 13105)

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