C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) taken on November 15th 2013 is a long-period comet discovered on 7 September 2013 by Terry Lovejoy using a 0.2-meter (7.9 in) Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope. C/2013 R1 will make it's closest approach to Earth on 19 November 2013 at a distance of 0.3967 AU (59,350,000 km; 36,880,000 mi). The comet is expected to reach an apparent magnitude of about 5. The comet will come to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 22 December 2013 at a distance of 0.81AU from the Sun.