| • Photograph of C/2002 V1(NEAT) This comet may become bright in the western sky in February. It was very diffuse in the 20cm refractor at 60x, when observed at 18:00 on Christmas Eve. The coma was about 5' across and the total magnitude was somewhere between 8.5 and 9. The Metcalf method was used to track the fast-moving comet for 3 minutes over a distance of 10" to the west. The tail was not visible at all. The predictions were published in the Comet Bulletin 503. |
![[Photo of C/2002 V1(NEAT)]](C2002V1_D20021224.jpg) C/2002 V1(NEAT) 18:15-18:33 on December 24, 2002 60cm f/3.5 reflector on 6415 film |
Copyright (C) 2002 Tsutomu Seki.