[BAA Comets] New comet Iwamoto

[Nick James]

Astrometry on the PCCP now gives a good arc for predictions over the 
next few days. The attached pseudo-MPEC comes from findorb.

Nick.


On 14/01/2020 07:20, Nick James wrote:
> CBET 4714 announces the discovery of a new comet by Masayuki Iwamoto, 
> Awa, Tokushima-ken, Japan, on two CCD frames taken on Jan. 8.86 UT with 
> a 10-cm Pentax 400-mm-f.l. f/4.0 lens and a Canon EOS 6D camera. This 
> comet is currently on the PCCP as IF033 and it is a morning object 
> moving gradually north in Ophiuchus.
> 
> It is currently around mag 14 and looks to be just past perihelion. You 
> can get an ephemeris from the PCCP here:
> 
> https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/pccp_tabular.html
> 
> I obtained images and astrometry this morning in bright Moonlight and 
> poor seeing:
> 
> https://britastro.org/node/20399
> 
> The object is definitely cometary and observations over the next few 
> days are encouraged before the Moon gets too close.
> 
> Nick James. Director.
> 
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