C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
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| Discovery | |
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| Discovered by: | Terry Lovejoy |
| Discovery date: | March 15, 2007 |
| Alternate designations: | Comet Lovejoy |
| Orbital characteristics A | |
| Epoch: | 2454180.5 (March 21, 2007) |
| Aphelion distance: | N/A AU |
| Perihelion distance: | 1.09306806940181 AU |
| Semi-major axis: | N/A AU |
| Eccentricity: | 1 |
| Orbital period: | ~N/A a |
| Inclination: | 95.8857797540258° |
| Last perihelion: | March 27, 2007 |
| Next perihelion: | N/A |
Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2007 E2, is a non-periodic comet discovered by Terry Lovejoy on 15 March 2007. Perihelion was 27 March 2007.
Perigee was 25 April 2007 in Hercules at a distance of 0.44 AU. Maximum apparent magnitude was approximately +8.
The discovery is interesting because it was made using a model 350D Canon consumer grade digital camera[1], and not the usual CCD survey camera.
[edit] Image gallery
 C2007/E2 on April 21, 2007 from Mt Laguna, Calif. |
 Sporting a vague tail to the 2 o'clock on May 09, 2007 from Mt Laguna. The star is Mu Draconis (mag 4.90) |
[edit] References and footnotes
- ^ Possum Observatory c/2007 E2 Page. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
[edit] External links
- C/2007E2 page on Kronk's Cometography
- NASA JPL Small-Body Database Browser on C/2007 E2
- C/2007E2 moving along the stars - WMV downloadable movie
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