- C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
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C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) 
Discovery 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.
Image gallery
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C/2007 E2 on April 21, 2007 from Mt Laguna, Calif.
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Sporting a vague tail to the 2 o'clock on May 09, 2007 from Mt Laguna. The star is Mu Draconis (mag 4.90)
References and footnotes
- ^ "Possum Observatory C/2007 E2 Page". http://www.possumobservatory.co.nz/comet2007e2-lovejoy.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
External links
- C/2007 E2 page on Kronk's Cometography
- NASA JPL Small-Body Database Browser on C/2007 E2
- C/2007 E2 moving along the stars - WMV downloadable movie
Categories:- Comet stubs
- Comets
- Astronomical objects discovered in 2007
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