[Aavso-photometry] ASAS May Have Discovered a Comet

[James Bedient]

This is pretty cool - I saw it on the MPC NEO confirmation page, but I
didn't know whose it was.

Another score for ASAS!

Jim

On 1/5/06, Aaron Price <aaronp at aavso.org> wrote:
>  This is not variable related, but is cool nonetheless. Our friends at ASAS may have
> discovered a comet in their survey. Announcement is below. Yet another innovative
> approach to surveys.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:35:27 +0100
> From: Grzegorz Pojmanski <gp at astrouw.edu.pl>
> Subject: New comet on the Southern Hemisphere
>
> New comet on the Southern Hemisphere
>
> Grzegorz Pojmanski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory reports:
>
> Using the ASAS3V instrument of The All Sky Automated Survey
> (telephoto lens 180/2.8, diameter 65mm + CCD + Johnsons V  filter,
> 3 minute exposures, pixel size 14.8 arcsec, rms astrometric accuracy:
> 4  arcsec) ASAS has discovered an apparently cometary
> object on images taken on January, 1, 2006.
> Object cannot be located in MPC/CBAT pages.
>
> Observations:
>    DATE    UT                      HJD        RA  (2000)  DEC      V
> 29/12/2005 00:45:17 (Dec 29.032) 2453733.5285 21:50:29  -69:40.6 13.20
> 01/01/2006 01:03:11 (Jan 01.044) 2453736.5407 21:40:28  -68:36.5 12.46
> 04/01/2006 00:46:26 (Jan 04.033) 2453739.5290 21:31:33  -67:31.2 12.00
> 04/01/2006 00:53:46 (Jan 04.038) 2453739.5341 21:31:33  -67:31.1 11.99
> 05/01/2006 00:52:27 (Jan 05.037) 2453740.5332 21:28:45  -67:08.8 11.92
>
> FWHM of the coma is 63 arcsec;
> Diameter of the ASAS-detected coma (largest contour) is 2 arcmin.
>
>
>
> Images of the comet can be inspected on the WWW following the links:
> http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas.html -> Alert Service Page -> Comets
> or directly on new comet's page:
> http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas_c2006.html
>
> Regards, Grzegorz Pojmanski
>
>
>
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