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Comet 408P/Novichonok-Gerke, Taras Prystavski

Comet 408P/Novichonok-Gerke

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Description

This image I found in the archive of SkyMapper telescope (MPC code Q55) at Siding Spring Observatory.
This is the only observation of comet in 2015, when it faded down below 20 mag and
so the comet became extremely faint.
My astrometry was published in MPEC 2022-L66.

Comet 408P/Novichonok-Gerke
2015 May 13.45 UT:  m1=20.4: CCD... 1.35-m Cassegrain + CCD...
© M. Petkovic, T. Preston, P. Tisserand, P. Oates, C. Vest, G. Bloxham,... T. Prystavski...
(SkyMapper telescope (Siding Spring Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia), MPC Q55)

MPCReport_408P_skymapper_20150513104252-23_g_bin2+3.txt

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