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Reports from Geisei Observatory <March 20, 2009>


C/2009 E1 (Itagaki)

    These are the results of the observations of this comet following March 16 and 17 observations.
    In the image below, the center of the comet is soft and this likely causes large measurement errors. I made measurements very carefully, but I wonder how accurate they are. Any periodic comet of this feeble appearance would expire while orbiting the sun.




    CK09E010   2009 03 20.42569 02 33 24.68 +15 12 45.6                      372
    CK09E010   2009 03 20.42813 02 33 24.32 +15 12 53.8                      372
    CK09E010   2009 03 20.44271 02 33 22.23 +15 13 45.6          12.2 N      372
    CK09E010   2009 03 20.44965 02 33 21.22 +15 14 09.8                      372
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