Electronic Telegram No. 3934
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA  02138; U.S.A.
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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