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New Amateur Comet Discovery!

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19 years 5 months ago #13407 by martinastro
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C. W. Juels (Fountain Hills, USA) and P. R. Holvorcem (Campinas, Brazil) report their discovery of a new comet on July 02, 2005, with a 7-cm lens + CCD. After posting on the NEO Confirmation Page J. E. McGaha (Tucson), C. W. Hergenrother (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) and L. Buzzi and F. Luppi (Varese) were able to confirm the nature of the 14.5m object. With prediscovery observations by Juels and Holvorcem of June 30, and July 01, 2005, the first orbit for comet C/2005 N1 (Juels-Holvorcem) indicates perihelion on Aug. 21, 2005, at about 1.1 AU. The comet will become only slightly brighter and stays at low elongations to the sun.
This is the first amateur comet discovery of 2005, and the second credited comet discovery of the team Juels/Holvorcem. They also recovered the lost comet 157P/Tritton in 2003. (IAUC 8557, subscription required, MPEC 2005-N10)

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coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680

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19 years 5 months ago #13409 by jhonan
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C. W. Juels (Fountain Hills, USA) and P. R. Holvorcem (Campinas, Brazil) report their discovery of a new comet on July 02, 2005, with a 7-cm lens + CCD.


"with a 7-cm lens" ???... :shock:

There's hope for us all! (I wonder was it a skylux....) :D

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19 years 5 months ago #13410 by martinastro
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Yes :D

Encouraging indeed!

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19 years 5 months ago #13435 by dave_lillis
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This is good news, but I wonder at what magnitude was it when it was discovered?

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19 years 5 months ago #13439 by martinastro
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Mag 14.5

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19 years 5 months ago #13442 by dave_lillis
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thats pretty faint.
You'd need a good atlas so as to be albe to dismiss every faint galaxy you might come across, and there are quite a large number of those at that mag.

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