[BAA Comets] FW: (cba:chat) A Serendipitous Encounter

[Jeremy Shears]

I thought the group might find this story below salutary. Here we have an honest law abiding variable star observer doing a time series photometry run on a cataclysmic variable only to have C/2012 E2 (Jacques) run through the field!
So, might you good folks have data on the variable?   ;-)
GD 552 is NSV 25966 in Cep.
Go well!
Jeremy

> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:56:19 -0400
> From: michael.cook at newcastleobservatory.ca
> To: cba-chat at cbastro.org
> Subject: (cba:chat) A Serendipitous Encounter
> 
>  
> 
> While doing a time series on GD 552 on August 28.3 UT I happened to
> notice a fairly bright object enter and slowly make its way across the
> FOV. After using the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Checker
> (http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi), it turns out it
> was comet C/2012 E2 (Jacques). You can read more about it here: 
> 
> http://www.newcastleobservatory.ca/node/244 
> 
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> Michael J. Cook
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