Wednesday, June 17, 2009
DIscovery of a Good Comet
Last night the intertubes were jumping in the cometary community, C42 Xingming Observatory , discoverer of comet C/2008 Chen Gao last year, emailed the comets list for observations of a potential new comet. Within a short time confirmations were flooding back, and Good01, now P/2009 L2 (YANG-GAO) (ephemeris here).
In Scutum, not far from the clusters of Sagittarius, it is currently at magnitude 14.5. A bit too dim for many amateurs, and well out of binocular range. The first confirmatory image from Giovanni Sostero, Paul Camilleri, Enrico Prosperi and Ernesto Guido is here, and a nice follow up image is here. Tont Farkas has a short animation here. Beutiful images taken with the GRAS remote telescopes by Erik Bryssinck and R. Ligustri are here and here respectively.
In Scutum, not far from the clusters of Sagittarius, it is currently at magnitude 14.5. A bit too dim for many amateurs, and well out of binocular range. The first confirmatory image from Giovanni Sostero, Paul Camilleri, Enrico Prosperi and Ernesto Guido is here, and a nice follow up image is here. Tont Farkas has a short animation here. Beutiful images taken with the GRAS remote telescopes by Erik Bryssinck and R. Ligustri are here and here respectively.
Labels: astrophotography, comets
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 6:57 am 
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