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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 3156      2016 Mar 25`12.52UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074
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332P/IKEYA-MURAKAMI (=P/2010 V1 = P/2015 Y2)
Further to the note on TA E-Circular 3136 the recovery of P/2010 V1 on 2015
December 31, at magnitude 20 was announced on 2016 January 2 and designated
as P/2015 Y2. Following this link the comet has been re-designated as
332P/Ikeya-Murakami.

The previous circular referred to observation of Fragments including A and B
by Nick James at magnitude 19.

Alexander Baransky, Kiev, Ukraine has also reported recording it on 2016
Mar. 10, 22:29:05 UT 46x60sec exposures with a 0.7-m (f/4) reflector with
FLI PL47-10 + R filter. Fragment A = m1=17.5, coma 19" DC 4; Fragment C =
m1=16.9, coma 47" DC 4. (Kyiv comet station, MPC 585.

GAIA6aio
John Murrell has drawn our attention to a Gaia Alert reporting a possible
supernova at: RA 20h27m46s DEC +25 43 26 in Cygnus mag 16.74 (G?) recorded
2016 March 20 at 21h26mUT. 

Guy M Hurst