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C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)

Orbital period : 17872.00 years

NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements


On 2017 Apr 13 03h37 UT by Francois Kugel


(Copyright Francois Kugel)

Coma Total magnitude (m1)9.3
Aperture radius used for m10.8 '
Nuclear magnitude (m2)13.3
m2 standard deviation0.2
Aperture radius used for m28 "
r (dist/Sun) 0.553 AU
d (dist/Earth) 0.797 AU
Right ascension23 46 42.60 h m s
Declination+33 14 46.9 ° ' "
MPC report
COD A77
CON FRANCOIS KUGEL [fkugel@wanadoo.fr]
OBS C. Rinner, F. Kugel
MEA F. Kugel
TEL 0.4-m f/3 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2017.04.13 06:46:48
AC2 fkugel@wanadoo.fr
NET USNO-SA2.0
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 13.15077 23 46 42.60 +33 14 46.9          13.1 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 13.15375 23 46 44.41 +33 14 56.6          13.5 N      A77
    CK17E040 KC2017 04 13.15670 23 46 46.28 +33 15 06.8           9.3 T      A77
Instrumental configurationConfig2
Instrument typeNewton
Instrument aperture (0=naked eye)400 mm
Instrument focale length1200 mm
Instrument focale/diameter3
Filter(s)None
CameraAtik460EX
SensorCCD
Sensor temperature-20 °C
Binning2x2
MountMeade MCMT-TDM
Exposure details15x10s
Observatory MPC codeA77
Reference stars catalogUSNO-SA2.0
Resulting picture sampling (scale)1.6 "/pix
Observation submission date2017 Apr 13 06h49m44s
Observation modification date2017 Apr 13 07h42m49s

(Record n° 17506)

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