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Canopus

Feb 24 2006, 01:18 PM

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MORNING COMET: A new comet is emerging in the morning sky: Comet Pojmanski has been brightening since its discovery in January and can now be found just east of Venus before sunrise. It looks like a slightly fuzzy blue star of magnitude 5; binoculars reveal a small tail. A good morning to look is Monday, Feb. 27th, when the comet glides by the double star Algedi.

Sky Map

This from spaceweather.com (updates will likely follow)

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http://s15.invisionfree.com/Psychestellic

ljk4-1

Feb 24 2006, 03:26 PM

QUOTE (Canopus @ Feb 24 2006, 08:18 AM)

Sky Map

This from spaceweather.com (updates will likely follow)

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http://s15.invisionfree.com/Psychestellic

ljk4-1

Feb 24 2006, 10:16 PM

Science/Astronomy:

* See it Now: New Comet Brightens Rapidly

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/060224_night_sky.html

During the next couple of weeks skywatchers will be turning their attention to a
newly discovered comet that has just swept past the Sun and will soon cruise
past Earth on its way back out toward the depths of the outer solar system.

ljk4-1

Mar 22 2006, 12:41 PM

New(?) comet in Bootes

Grzegorz Pojmanski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory reports:

Using the ASAS3V instrument of The All Sky Automated Survey
(telephoto lens 200/2.8, diameter 70mm + CCD + Johnsons V filter,
3 minute exposures, pixel size 14.8 arcsec, rms astrometric accuracy:
4 arcsec) I have found another apparently cometary object on images
taken on March 15, 2006. I could not identify this object using MPC/CBAT pages.
Search for prediscovery images revealed the same object on the frames taken
on Mar 14 (I filter), March 12, 09, 06 ,03 (V filter), as well as on image taken
tonight (Mar 16, I filter).

Observations:

DATE UT HJD RA (2000) DEC
03/03/2006 06:38:53 (Mar 03.277) 2453797.7815 14:00:29 +13:14.7 13.69 (V)
06/03/2006 06:19:20 (Mar 06.263) 2453800.7680 14:04:23 +13:42.9 13.62 (V)
09/03/2006 06:43:46 (Mar 09.281) 2453803.7846 14:08:20 +14:14.1 13.38 (V)
12/03/2006 06:32:23 (Mar 12.273) 2453806.7769 14:12:18 +14:47.4 13.00 (V)
14/03/2006 06:46:15 (Mar 14.283) 2453808.7873 14:14:55 +15:10.9 ---- (I)
15/03/2006 06:37:30 (Mar 15.276) 2453809.7806 14:16:17 +15:23.5 12.43 (V)
16/03/2006 06:14:32 (Mar 16.261) 2453810.7654 14:17:36 +15:35.9 ---- (I)

FWHM of the coma is 60 arcsec;
Diameter of the ASAS-detected coma (largest contour) is 1.5 arcmin
with a 2 arcmin tail pointing west.

Simple extrapolation predicts that tonight (Mar 16/17) comet should be visible
close to the position: RA,DEC 14:18:55 +15:48.3 .

Images of the comet can be viewed through the following link:

http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas_c2006_2.html

Regards, Grzegorz Pojmanski

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