C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)

C/2007 E2 ( Lovejoy ) is the first comet that was discovered with the help of a digital camera.

The comet was discovered on 15 March 2007 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy in the constellation Indians. With the discovery of the comet had an apparent magnitude of 9.5 mag.

The comet Lovejoy moved rapidly northward, and could be observed from April 2007 by Central European latitudes. As the comet on 25 April 2007 at 0.44 AE passed the erdnahesten point, he owned 7.5 like its maximum brightness. Since then decreases its brightness.