[BAA Comets] New comet Iwamoto

[Nick James]

CBET 4714 announces the discovery of a new comet by Masayuki Iwamoto, 
Awa, Tokushima-ken, Japan, on two CCD frames taken on Jan. 8.86 UT with 
a 10-cm Pentax 400-mm-f.l. f/4.0 lens and a Canon EOS 6D camera. This 
comet is currently on the PCCP as IF033 and it is a morning object 
moving gradually north in Ophiuchus.

It is currently around mag 14 and looks to be just past perihelion. You 
can get an ephemeris from the PCCP here:

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/pccp_tabular.html

I obtained images and astrometry this morning in bright Moonlight and 
poor seeing:

https://britastro.org/node/20399

The object is definitely cometary and observations over the next few 
days are encouraged before the Moon gets too close.

Nick James. Director.