C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13216)
Orbital period : 14154.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Jan 08 02h21 UT by Jean-Francois Soulier
(Copyright Jean-Francois Soulier)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 7.09 Aperture radius used for m1 0.88 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 8.5 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 6.9 " Coma diameter 8.24 ' Afrho 5466 cm Afrho error 252 cm r (dist/Sun) 1.333 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.469 AU Right ascension 04 14 17.93 h m s Declination -02 14 10.4 ° ' " MPC report COD W96
CON ALAIN MAURY [amaury@spaceobs.com]
OBS A. Maury, J.-F. Soulier
MEA J.-F. Soulier
TEL 0.4-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.01.08
AC2 amaury@spaceobs.com
NET UCAC-4
CK14Q020 C2015 01 08.09790 04 14 17.93 -02 14 10.4 8.5 N W96
CK14Q020 C2015 01 08.10495 04 14 15.01 -02 13 06.2 8.6 N W96
CK14Q020 C2015 01 08.11224 04 14 12.00 -02 11 59.7 8.5 N W96
Instrument type Ritchey-Chretien Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 400 mm Instrument focale length 3200 mm Instrument focale/diameter 8 Filter(s) I Bessel Camera QHY Sensor CCD Sensor temperature -30 °C Binning 2x2 Mount PARAMOUNT Autoguide Yes Exposure details 20 x 15s Moon elongation 78 ° Air mass 1.08 Observatory MPC code W96 Location San Pedro de Atacama, Chili Reference stars catalog UCAC-4
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 0.69 "/pix Observation submission date 2015 Jan 08 05h02m39s Observation modification date 2015 Jan 08 05h21m45s