------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1094 1996 July 07 08.23UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074 INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMET C/1996 N1 (BREWINGTON) The comet reported on E1093 has now been designated as above. Further precise positions have enabled Brian Marsden at the Central Bureau to compute the following preliminary elements: Parabolic orbital elements from 23 observations July 4-6: T = 1996 Aug. 3.418 TT Peri. = 44.120 Node = 235.119 2000.0 q = 0.92309 AU Incl. = 51.672 Source: IAUC 6430 Positions are geocentric Ephemeris by G.Hurst using EPH.EXE by N.James: m = 10.5 + 5.0 log R + 10.0 log r Date R.A. (2000) Dec. R r Elong Mag. Motion h m o ' (AU) (AU) o "/hr P.A. 1996 July 7.00 11 41.70 +6 47.6 0.828 1.043 68.0 10.3 182 37 8.00 11 44.62 +7 45.8 0.829 1.035 67.3 10.2 181 37 9.00 11 47.56 +8 43.7 0.830 1.027 66.7 10.2 181 37 10.00 11 50.51 +9 41.5 0.831 1.020 66.1 10.2 181 37 11.00 11 53.47 +10 39.0 0.832 1.012 65.5 10.2 180 37 12.00 11 56.45 +11 36.2 0.833 1.005 65.0 10.1 180 37 13.00 11 59.43 +12 33.2 0.834 0.999 64.4 10.1 179 38 14.00 12 2.42 +13 30.0 0.835 0.992 63.9 10.1 179 38 15.00 12 5.42 +14 26.4 0.837 0.986 63.4 10.1 178 38 16.00 12 8.43 +15 22.5 0.838 0.980 62.9 10.0 177 38 17.00 12 11.44 +16 18.2 0.840 0.974 62.4 10.0 176 38 18.00 12 14.47 +17 13.6 0.842 0.968 62.0 10.0 176 38 19.00 12 17.49 +18 8.6 0.844 0.963 61.5 10.0 175 38 20.00 12 20.53 +19 3.3 0.846 0.958 61.1 10.0 174 38 21.00 12 23.57 +19 57.5 0.848 0.954 60.8 9.9 172 38 22.00 12 26.61 +20 51.3 0.850 0.949 60.4 9.9 171 39 23.00 12 29.66 +21 44.7 0.852 0.945 60.0 9.9 170 39 24.00 12 32.71 +22 37.7 0.855 0.942 59.7 9.9 169 39 25.00 12 35.77 +23 30.2 0.857 0.938 59.4 9.9 168 39 26.00 12 38.83 +24 22.2 0.859 0.935 59.1 9.9 167 39 27.00 12 41.90 +25 13.7 0.862 0.933 58.9 9.9 165 39 28.00 12 44.97 +26 4.8 0.864 0.930 58.7 9.9 164 39 29.00 12 48.04 +26 55.3 0.867 0.928 58.5 9.9 162 39 30.00 12 51.12 +27 45.4 0.870 0.926 58.3 9.9 161 39 31.00 12 54.20 +28 34.9 0.872 0.925 58.1 9.9 160 40 Guy M Hurst