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Reports from Geisei Observatory <November 15, 2006>


Photograph of faded P/2006 T1 (Levy)

    This is the image of faded P/2006 T1 (Levy). As you see, the comet looks split into two indicating the beginning of deterioration. This could be my last glimpse of the comet. I took four photographs of the comet, but the clarity of the images is more or less the same.
41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak                          
1978UT        RA (2000.0)   Dec           m1         
Dec.11.84583  14 39 34.21  -11 38 18.8   14.9     372





P/2006 T1 (Levy)
2-minute exposure from 4:26, October 30 J.S.T.
60cm f/3.5 reflector
TMY400 film



The enlarged image of the comet


Copyright (C) 2006 Tsutomu Seki.