2013h1 20130420 ebryssinck

I observed this object, while it was still mentioned on the NEOCP of Minor Planet Center with remote telescopes from New-Mexico and Nerpio Spain of the iTelescope.net networdk and also from my Backyard observaotry (BRIXIIS observatory MPC:B96). It has defenitely cometary appearances.

Later was this object assigned as comet C/2013 H1 (LA SAGRA) with CBET 3485: 20130422 : COMET C/2013 H1 (LA SAGRA).  In this CBET are my observations from the several observatories mentioned:




COMET C/2013 H1 (LA SAGRA)

    An object reported initially by J. Nomen as a possible comet from images taken on Apr. 19 in the course of the "La Sagra Sky Survey" with a 0.45-m

f/2.8 reflector at La Sagra, Spain ....

....  Erik Bryssinck, Kruibeke, Belgium, writes that his five co-added 180-s images taken on Apr. 21.01 remotely with a 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector of the iTelescope network at Nerpio, Spain, show a coma of diameter about 10" with a tail about 18" long to the west (p.a. 272 degrees); his follow-up co-added images taken with an iTelescope 0.51-m f/4.5 astrograph near Mayhill on Apr. 21.3 shows a 12" coma with a hint of a tail toward the southwest (p.a. 245 deg), while similar images with his own backyard 0.4-m

f/3.8 astrograph on Apr. 22.06 with a luminance filter shows a similar appearance (though the tail p.a. was measured as p.a. 258 deg)…….







Image below is the image taken with the 17” telescope in Nerpio Spain