C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13105)
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 m1 2.7 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 10.1 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 27 " Coma diameter 15 ' Tail length 1.2 ° Tail position angle
(PA) 352.2 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.423 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.644 AU Right ascension 06 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 type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 420 mm Instrument focale/diameter 2.1 Filter(s) R (RGB) Camera ST8300 Sensor CCD Sensor size 18x24 mm2 Sensor temperature -20 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Meade MCMT Exposure total time 200 s Observatory MPC code A77 Reference stars catalog USNO-SA2.0
Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 5.3 "/pix Observation submission date 2014 Dec 21 02h18m29s Observation modification date 2014 Dec 21 08h44m44s