[BAA Comets] another amateur comet discovery

[Nick James]

Many congratulations to Masayuki Iwamoto. The comet is currently low in 
the morning sky on the border of Hydra and Libra. It is slowly moving 
north and will cross into Virgo in mid-January. As Jonathan says the 
orbit is currently very uncertain. As soon as we get a bit more 
astrometry I'll post some charts on the BAA website.

As a challenge it may be observable from the UK now. From Chelmsford it 
is currrently around 10 degrees elevation in the SSE at the start of 
nautical twilight (around 0640 UT). This is 10 deg lower and a bit to 
the right of where Venus is.

Any observations, especially astrometry, would be welcome.

Nick.