[IAUC] CBET 3495: 20130425 : COMET C/2013 H2 (BOATTINI)
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Electronic Telegram No. 3495
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
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COMET C/2013 H2 (BOATTINI)
A. Boattini reports his discovery of a comet (discovery observations
tabulated below) on CCD images taken with the Catalina Sky Survey's 0.68-m
Schmidt telescope; he noted that four co-added 30-s exposures show a strongly
condensed coma about 10-12" in diameter with no evident tail visible against a
rich star background. Follow-up images obtained by Boattini with the Mt.
Lemmon 1.5-m reflector on Apr. 23.3-23.5 UT show a strong central condensation
with a 10" coma and a very faint fan-shaped tail extending for about 40" in
p.a. 140-165 deg, as seen in four co-added 50-s exposures. After the object
was posted on the Minor Planet Center's NEOCP webpage, other CCD astrometrists
have commented on the cometary appearance. H. Sato (Tokyo, Japan; remotely
using an iTelescope 0.51-m f/6.8 astrograph at Siding Spring, NSW; eight
stacked 60-s exposures; Apr. 22.6) found a strongly condensed coma 10" in
diameter, with V-band magnitude 18.1 as measured within a circular aperture of
radius 6".5, and showing a faint fan-like tail 15" long toward p.a. 135 deg.
Luca Buzzi (Varese, Italy; 0.38-m f/6.8 reflector; Apr. 25.1) writes that
stacked images obtained in good seeing but in a bright sky show a softer
aspect with respect to stars and a tail 10" long in p.a. around 130 deg.
Sergio Foglia notes that 30 stacked 30-s images obtained by R. Holmes (Ashmore,
IL, USA; 0.81-m f/4 astrograph; Apr. 25.35-25.36) show a 6" round coma and
an 8".5 tail in p.a. 162 deg.
2013 UT R.A. (2000) Decl. Mag. Observer
Apr. 22.44551 17 09 31.32 - 7 43 06.6 17.6 Boattini
22.45227 17 09 31.14 - 7 43 04.1 17.6 "
22.45905 17 09 30.81 - 7 43 02.3 17.5 "
22.46586 17 09 30.63 - 7 43 00.4 17.4 "
The available astrometry, the following very preliminary elliptical orbital
elements, and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2013-H45.
T = 2011 Mar. 27.7999 TT Peri. = 259.5192
e = 0.774571 Node = 255.1185 2000.0
q = 2.481260 AU Incl. = 108.2292
a = 11.006857 AU n = 0.0269904 P = 36.5 years
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2013 April 25 (CBET 3495) Daniel W. E. Green
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