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Reports from Geisei Observatory <March 15, 2009>


C/2006 OF2 (Broughton), C/2006 W3 (Christensen), C/2008 X3 (LINEAR), P/2009 B1 (Boattini), C/2008 T2 (Cardinal), and 144P/Kushida

    The results of the latest observations continue from the previous reports. They are all relatively bright comets.
    C/2006 OF2 (Broughton) holds its brightness persistently.
    144P/Kushida continues to be bright enough to be visually observed.
    I will report on C/2007 N3 (Lulin) next time. It will be too faint to see with the naked-eye and barely visible in 7x50 binoculars.

    CK06O02F   2009 01 27.48715 05 56 08.12 +49 58 12.7          12.4 T      372
    CK06O02F   2009 02 12.43455 05 59 19.39 +45 48 12.6          12.8 T      372
    CK06O02F   2009 02 17.44618 06 01 43.49 +44 33 46.5          13.2 T      372
    CK06O02F   2009 03 01.59913 06 09 45.61 +41 44 21.2          13.8 T      372

    CK06W030   2009 01 27.39444 22 11 53.85 +39 05 55.7          12.9 T      372
    CK06W030   2009 01 27.40191 22 11 54.12 +39 05 50.0                      372

    CK08X030   2009 03 01.66962 10 33 40.32 -25 05 36.5          18.5 T      372

    PK09B010   2009 01 27.44549 01 59 06.52 +33 35 11.0          18.6 T      372

    CK08T020   2009 02 17.43715 03 02 36.49 +63 55 07.2          14.4 T      372
    CK08T020   2009 02 18.58500 03 05 46.92 +63 23 44.3          14.9 T      372

0144P          2009 01 25.64462 04 09 20.52 +15 57 49.8          13.7 T      372
0144P          2009 01 27.47448 04 13 21.48 +16 02 17.0          13.3 T      372
Copyright (C) 2009 Tsutomu Seki.