[BAA Comets] another amateur comet discovery

Nick James ndj at nickdjames.com
Sat Dec 22 07:18:17 GMT 2018


Here's my image of this new comet from Chelmsford this morning. It's 
definitely not that impressive at the moment and the slow sky motion 
makes it difficult to calculate a good orbit but something possibly to 
look forward to in the New Year.

Nick.



On 21/12/2018 07:28, Nick James wrote:
> 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.
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