[IAUC] CBET 3934: 20140819 : COMET C/2014 Q2 (LOVEJOY)
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Electronic Telegram No. 3934
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
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COMET C/2014 Q2 (LOVEJOY)
T. Lovejoy, Birkdale, Qld., Australia, reports his discovery of a comet
on CCD images obtained with a 20-cm f/2.1 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
(discovery observations tabulated below); he described the object as small
and well condensed with diameter 15" and a short, faint tail 1' long in p.a.
225 degrees in a crowded star field.
2014 UT R.A. (2000) Decl. Mag. Observer
Aug. 17.71993 6 47 58.86 -41 48 39.3 14.8 Lovejoy
17.72627 6 47 59.54 -41 48 40.2 14.9 "
17.73262 6 48 00.29 -41 48 39.4 14.6 "
18.75659 6 49 36.11 -41 46 36.9 14.7 "
18.76632 6 49 37.32 -41 46 36.2 15.1 "
18.77605 6 49 38.24 -41 46 35.4 14.9 "
After the object was posted on the Minor Planet Center's PCCP webpage, C.
Jacques, E. Pimentel, and J. Barros report that a 300-s CCD exposure taken
with a 0.28-m f/2.2 astrograph at the SONEAR Observatory near Oliveira,
Brazil, on Aug. 19.28 UT shows a condensed coma of diameter 25" and red
magnitude 14.8.
The available astrometry, the following preliminary parabolic orbital
elements by G. V. Williams, and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2014-Q10.
T = 2015 Feb. 14.8649 TT Peri. = 356.3469
Node = 104.7467 2000.0
q = 1.776752 AU Incl. = 79.6007
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2014 August 19 (CBET 3934) Daniel W. E. Green
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