Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy)
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February 25, 2014

False color unfiltered image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2014 Feb. 25 (4h02-4h10UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope. Exposure time was 5x90 seconds. Image scale is 2.50 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2014 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

December 16, 2013

True color image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained in moonlight conditions on 2013 Dec. 16 (5h03-5h21UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 6x30 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 3.75 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

December 14, 2013

False color unfiltered image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Dec. 14 (4h17-4h32UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope. Exposure time was 5x30 seconds. Image scale is 3.75 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

December 13, 2013

True color image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Dec. 13 (4h28-4h41UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 5x30 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 3.75 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

Wide field image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Dec. 13 (4h13-4h28UT) with 120mm, f/4 lens and Canon 650D. Exposure time was 11x60 seconds at ISO 1600. Bright star East of comet is Zeta Herculi. Globular cluster M13 is near the top left side of the frame. Image scale is about 30 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by J. Vales and H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

December 7, 2013

True color image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Dec. 7 (4h28-4h41UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 6x20 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 3.75 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

December 4, 2013

True color image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Dec. 4 (3h17-3h34UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 6x30 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 3.75 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

Wide field image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Dec. 4 (4h30-4h40UT) with 120mm, f/4 lens and Canon 650D. Exposure time was 11x60 seconds at ISO 1600. Image scale is about 20 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by J. Vales and H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

November 26, 2013

False color filtered image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained on 2013 Nov. 26 (4h01-4h04UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, R filter and CCD. Exposure time was 5x30 seconds. Image scale is 2.5 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

False color wide-field panoramic image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained in moonlight conditions on 2013 Nov. 26 (4h40-4h44UT) with 105 mm, f/4 lens, R filter and CCD. Exposure time was 3x60 seconds. With a tail spanning obout 5 degrees, the comet apparently moves between the galaxies M51 (top) and M63 (bottom right). Image scale is about 35 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

November 17, 2013

Wide field image of comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy), obtained in strong moonlight conditions on 2013 Nov. 17 (4h09-4h20UT) with 250 mm, f/4 lens and Canon 650D DSLR. Exposure time was 20x30s at ISO 800. Field of view is 4.8o x 3.4o. The ion tail length is about 2.5o. Observation was performed from the Karst region of W Slovenia. Copyright © 2013 by H. Mikuz & J. Vales, Èrni Vrh Observatory.

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