A79 team searched for the comet several days and after the observations made by LINEAR project the object was detected on 16/07/2007 at about 1.8 degree from the predicted position. We measured a coma diameter about 25 arc sec and total magnitude 16.0R (see IAUC 8856).
Entries from July 2007
20.07.2007 Recovery of the comet P/2002 O5 (NEAT)
July 21, 2007 at 9:18pm
18.07.2007 Comet activity detection
July 21, 2007 at 9:08pm
The comet activity of the object temporary designed as a BD97323 was found on the images taken from A79 on 18/07/2007. A coma diameter of 14 arc sec was measured. After the observations of other observatories the new comet C/2007 O1 (LINEAR) was announced (see IAUC 8858 and MPEC 2007-O10). The preliminary orbit shows that […]