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Reports from Geisei Observatory <July 27, 2007>


17P/Holmes, 177P/Barnard 2, 4P/Faye, and C/2007 O1 (LINEAR)

    These are the recent observations made at Geisei. In summer time we are very busy every day having many visitors to the observatory.

    There isn't any noteworthy comet apart from C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR), which is relatively bright at 8th magnitude in the evening sky.

    It is about time that a great comet appeared without warning. In late July, 1955, Comet Honda was discovered in Eridanus near Orion and brightened to 5.5 magnitude in August. Someone announced the prediction that the comet would brighten to minus magnitudes and caused a sensation. Many comets have been discovered in the early morning skies in summer. 

0017P          2007 07 15.71597 02 31 25.75 +29 41 37.4          15.3 T      372
0017P          2007 07 26.77014 02 50 25.67 +32 36 11.2          14.9 T      372
0017P          2007 07 26.77753 02 50 26.46 +32 36 18.7                      372
0017P          2007 07 26.78333 02 50 27.04 +32 36 23.4          15.0 T      372

0177P          2006 09 22.65069 18 02 10.80 +68 38 13.5          13.8 T      372
0177P          2006 10 15.51875 20 50 00.03 +73 14 01.5          14.7 T      372
0177P          2006 10 15.53160 20 50 07.62 +73 13 58.1          14.6 T      372

0004P          2006 10 18.67847 02 09 04.79 +09 19 05.9           9.1 T      372
0004P          2006 11 27.47118 02 14 18.22 +02 21 10.3          10.3 T      372

    CK07O010   2007 07 23.61597 19 04 20.97 -18 37 30.2          17.7 T      372


Copyright (C) 2007 Tsutomu Seki.