[Chaos-l] A New Comet

[Stewart-Taylor, Jon]

According to an ephemeris published at
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2007N3.html:

2009 02 03    15 06.61   -16 41.3    0.879    1.266    85.3    50.9
7.2
2009 02 08    14 42.01   -14 57.3    0.727    1.290    96.5    49.4
6.9
2009 02 13    14 04.19   -11 54.8    0.586    1.318   111.3    44.3
6.5
2009 02 18    13 05.32   -06 25.9    0.472    1.350   131.8    33.1
6.2
2009 02 23    11 40.91   +02 15.2    0.414    1.385   159.7    14.4
6.0
2009 02 28    10 06.97   +11 23.6    0.436    1.423   170.3     6.7
6.2
2009 03 05    08 51.60   +17 09.1    0.531    1.463   146.2    22.2
6.8
2009 03 10    08 01.81   +19 53.4    0.668    1.506   129.0    30.8
7.4

Maximum brightness will be about 6.0 mid-to-late February.  Of course,
comets are notoriously hard to predict.

J.

-----Original Message-----
From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 6:06 PM
To: Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
Subject: [Chaos-l] A New Comet

Everyone,

Apparently there is a new comet *... ***C/2007 N3 (Lulin) ... that is 
coming in to the solar system.  So get out your scopes and take a 
look!   Right now it is in Libra (pretty hard to see unless you get up 
early in the morning), but I bet it will switch constellations soon.

There's a picture of it at 
http://www.sidleach.com/comet_c2007_n3_lulin_012709.htm ... and I know 
that when I asked my planetarium program (TheSky6) to download new 
comets, it was in there ...

Robert
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