Neuer Komet 9mag

[Mark]

...ist gerade gekommen, gibs mal so weiter:

NEW COMET IN CETUS

A 9th-magnitude comet has just been found in the constellation
Cetus, low in the western evening sky. It was spotted almost
simultaneously on February 1st by Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka
prefecture, Japan, and by Daqing Zhang in Henan province,
China. Both observers described it as a small glow about
2' or 3' across, with no mention of a tail. Ikeya was using
a 25-cm (10-inch) reflector, Zhang a 20-cm.

The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams announced the
find today on IAU Circular 7812. For further details and
information on how to subscribe to that service, visit
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html

No orbit has yet been calculated for this comet, so its
future motion is anybody's guess. But Ikeya estimated it to
be moving northeastward at about 10 arcminutes per hour.
Shortly before 10h Universal Time on February 1st, he found
its position to be right ascension 0h 08.9m, declination
-17d 42' (equinox 2000.0).

Roger W. Sinnott

Senior Editor
Sky & Telescope

[Mike]

warst 1 min schneller als ich ! ..... *oT*