| • The sky started clearing after midnight in the wake of a typhoon.
With clouds still moving fast, the air became so transparent before dawn
that it revealed a spectacular starry sky, almost like that seen at the
summit of Mauna Kea. • Venus shining at dawn was so bright that it looked as if the sun was shining in the night sky. Serius was already rising in the southeast sky. • P/2001 Q2 was barely visible in an 8cm finderscope at magnitude 10 with the coma 3' across. The nucleus was solid at magnitude 14. It may brighten to the 7th magnitude, but at the end of the year it will be too close to the sun to observe. P/2001 Q2
2001 UT
R.A. (2000) Dec. m1
Aug.21.75861 5 51 01.83 +26o59'22".7 10.7 372
21.76083 5 51 02.66 +26 59 18 .9
21.80580 5 51 17.54 +26 58 22 .0
21.80736 5 51 18.15 +26 58 20 .1 372
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Copyright (C) 2001 Tsutomu Seki.