[BAA Comets] C/2018 A1 (PANSTARRS)

[Nick James]

Morning all,

Last Thursday evening was clear here although there was a bright Moon.

I obtained images of several comets and the field of C/2018 A1 
(PANSTARRS). The faint fuzzy object at the centre of the attached image 
is several arcmin south of the predicted position but the last published 
orbit was in MPEC 2018-A43, dated Jan 11. This was based on a relatively 
short arc. I've sent my astrometry to the MPC and if this really is the 
comet then the orbit changes quite a bit from the one published on MPEC 
2018-043.

Has anyone obtained astrometry of this comet recently? It is supposed to 
be around mag 18.

Nick.
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