Reports from Geisei Observatory <April 30, 2009>

P/2009 F3 (LINEAR) = 217P/LINEAR, C/2009 F5 (McNaught)

    Both comets are relatively faint in the southern sky. The magnitudes of the nuclei are given here, as Geisei's optics are slow. If the coma of each comet were captured in photographs, the magnitudes would be a little brighter. Resurrecting the observing method of more than 10 years ago, we are tackling faint comets.

    PK09F030   2009 04 26.76990 21 02 32.24 -11 44 11.6          19.0 N      372
    PK09F030   2009 04 26.78472 21 02 34.10 -11 44 05.4                      372

    CK09F050   2009 04 26.64271 14 22 13.55 -20 21 19.0          18.0 N      372
    CK09F050   2009 04 26.65486 14 22 12.50 -20 20 57.3                      372