C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 13426)
Orbital period : 14154.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2015 Feb 18 21h54 UT by Philippe Roux
(Copyright Philippe Roux)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 5.9 Coma diameter 20 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 2 Tail length 0 ° r (dist/Sun) 1.322 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.100 AU Right ascension 01 41 53 h m s Declination +50 35 17 ° ' " Instrument LX50 8" Instrument type Schmidt-Cassegrain Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1260 mm Instrument focale/diameter 6.3 Camera CANON EOS 350D Sensor DC Sensor size 22.2x14.8 mm2 Sensor pixels number 3456x2304 Mount LX50 Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 6222 s Exposure details 34x183s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Location PLOUMILLIAU 22300 FRANCE Reference stars catalog GSC (HST) Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.05 "/pix Image processing soustraction 7 darks URL for more information or pictures http://www.astrosurf.com/rouxph/index.html Remarks or comments alignement sur la comète Observation submission date 2015 Feb 20 15h05m59s Observation modification date 2015 Feb 20 15h10m07s