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Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   m1    m2
2007 05 10    17 02.92   +54 50.8    0.616    1.300   103.5    49.0   9.6
2007 05 15 16 16.90 +60 14.1 0.723 1.344 100.4 47.7 10.1
2007 05 20 15 33.32 +63 05.3 0.838 1.391 97.0 46.2 10.5
2007 05 25 14 55.84 +64 20.1 0.958 1.439 93.8 44.6 11.0
2007 05 30 14 25.85 +64 38.0 1.081 1.490 90.7 42.9 11.4


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Congratulations to Terry Lovejoy from Brisbane, Australia on his photographic survey discovery of a magnitude 9.5 comet in the deep southern sky! IAU Circular No. 8819 states -
COMET 2007 E2
Terry Lovejoy, Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, reports his discovery of a comet with a strong central condensation and a green extended 4' coma, with a slight extension to the southwest, on sixteen 90-s CCD images obtained on Mar. 15 with a Canon 350D camera (+ 200-mm f/2.8 lens); the coma diameter was given as 5' from his Mar. 16 frame (his positions below have estimated uncertainties of ± 15"). At Lovejoy's request, J. Drummond (Gisborne, New Zealand, 0.41-m reflector) confirmed the comet visually at mag 9.5 (moderately condensed, coma diameter 2'.6, no tail).


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Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   m1    m2
2007 03 21 20 37.33 -48 13.9 1.049 1.099 64.9 55.2 10.0
2007 03 26 20 29.81 -44 43.9 0.938 1.094 68.7 58.2 9.8
2007 03 31 20 20.93 -40 18.1 0.827 1.095 73.0 60.7 9.5
2007 04 05 20 10.31 -34 29.9 0.718 1.102 77.9 62.5 9.2
2007 04 10 19 57.42 -26 39.7 0.616 1.116 83.6 63.2 8.9
2007 04 15 19 41.52 -15 55.4 0.529 1.135 90.1 62.1 8.7
2007 04 20 19 21.61 -01 36.7 0.466 1.159 97.2 59.3 8.5
2007 04 25 18 56.52 +15 29.8 0.443 1.188 103.3 55.5 8.5
2007 04 30 18 25.15 +32 19.8 0.465 1.222 106.3 52.3 8.7
2007 05 05 17 47.04 +45 42.6 0.527 1.260 106.0 50.3 9.1


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Terry Lovejoy of Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, has discovered a 9th-magnitude comet in the southern constellation Indus. In reporting the find to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT), Lovejoy described the comet as having a green, 4' coma with a slight extension to the southwest. Its position on March 15.73 Universal Time was right ascension 20h 44.1m, declination -51° 14' (equinox 2000.0), and it appears to be moving 0.55° per day north-northwestward, toward Alpha Indi.

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