2014l3 20140610 kowalski

  I did not expect to be finding another so soon. Attached is an image of COMET P/2014 L3 (HILL). This makes 27 and moves me into 3rd place after McNaught and Shoemaker.


  R. E. Hill reports his discovery of a comet on Catalina Sky Survey images
obtained with the 0.68-m Schmidt telescope (discovery observations tabulated
below), the comet having a well-condensed nucleus with small coma 4"-5" in
diameter and a broad, diffuse tail 15"-20" long in p.a. about 220-230 deg as
seen in four co-added 30-s images taken with seeing < 2"; four co-added
follow-up images taken on June 10.4 UT show the coma 5"-7" across with a
diffuse, broad tail about 15" long in p.a. about 230 deg.

Four co-added 45-s follow-up images taken by R. A. Kowalski on June 10.4 with
the Mount Lemmon 1.5-m reflector show a slightly diffuse coma 10" in diameter
with a broad, diffuse tail extending at least 20" in p.a. 240 deg.