C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy) (Record n° 17588)
Orbital period : 17872.00 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Mar 30 04h28 UT by Cyrille Calvet
(Copyright Cyrille Calvet )r (dist/Sun) 0.753 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.606 AU Instrumental configuration Config2 Instrument Achromat 152/900 Ohara (astro Professional) Instrument type Refractor Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 152 mm Instrument focale length 900 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.92 Filter(s) Clear Camera ZWO 1600ASI MC cooled Sensor CCD Sensor size 17.7 x 13.4 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4656 x 3520 pixels Sensor temperature -25 °C Binning 1x1 Mount SW EQ6 progoto Motorization Yes Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 960 s Exposure details 8x2mn Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 0.5 Seeing 3 Location Tautavel 66720 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.02 "/pix Image processing DSS URL for more information or pictures http://astronomiecyrille.over-blog.com/2017/03/1ere-image-de-la-comete-c/2017-e4-lovejoy.html Observation submission date 2017 Apr 27 10h30m44s Observation modification date 2017 May 02 01h24m51s