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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 14154.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2015 Jan 07 20h49 UT by Joel Nicolas


(Copyright Joel Nicolas)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)5.4
Nuclear magnitude (m2)9.3
m2 standard deviation0.1
Aperture radius used for m211.2 "
Coma diameter8.1 '
Afrho5766 cm
Afrho error63 cm
Afrho URL for more infoCal_Afrho= 5297 cm ; 5248 cm rho=10000km
r (dist/Sun) 1.336 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.469 AU
Right ascension04 15 52.08 h m s
Declination-02 49 28.3 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON J. NICOLAS [nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS J. Nicolas
MEA J. Nicolas
TEL 0.41-m f/3.3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2015.01.08 16:12:21
AC2 nicolas.joel@wanadoo.fr
NET UCAC-4
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.86758 04 15 52.08 -02 49 28.3           9.3 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.86950 04 15 51.32 -02 49 10.5           9.4 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.87046 04 15 50.91 -02 49 01.9           9.3 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.87139 04 15 50.51 -02 48 53.6           9.4 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.87233 04 15 50.13 -02 48 44.7           9.4 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.87331 04 15 49.73 -02 48 36.4           9.3 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.87425 04 15 49.34 -02 48 27.3           9.3 N      A77
    CK14Q020  C2015 01 07.87486 04 15 49.09 -02 48 21.6           9.3 N      A77
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)410 mm
Instrument focale length1353 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3.3
Filter(s)I Bessel
CameraST8XME
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-35 °C
Binning1x1
Exposure details21*10s
Air mass1.46
Observatory MPC codeA77
Location04 Dauban
Reference stars catalogUCAC-4
Used softwaresASTROMETRICA
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.4 "/pix
Observation submission date2015 Jan 08 16h16m16s
Observation modification date2015 Jan 31 11h37m30s

(Record n° 13219)

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