-------------------------------------------------------------------
THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2246      2006 Jly 16 18.46UT
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      Backup: gmh@wdcc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk
WORLD WIDE WEB                         http://www.theastronomer.org
-------------------------------------------------------------------
EDITOR'S ABSEBCE
The editor will be away on unavailable from Monday July 17 and will 
return on Wednesday afternoon, July 19. During that time please refer 
any discovery queries to Nick James whose contact details appear in the 
first page of each issue of the magazine.

COMET C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
R. D. Matson, Irvine, CA; and M. Mattiazzo, Adelaide, S. Australia,
report independently that they found images of a moving object at small 
solar elongations on SOHO/SWAN images from late June with confirmation 
obtained by Terry Lovejoy on June 30.

      2006 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Mag.   Observer
      June 20          8 42.0       - 9 29               SWAN
           22          8 44.0       - 8 48                 "
           25          8 46.8       - 8 00                 "
           29          8 50.0       - 6 09                 "
           30.363      8 52.49      - 6 20.8      12     Lovejoy

      The ephemeris below is by Dan Green and appeared on IAUC 8729 as a 
guide for observers only:

2006 TT     R. A. (2000) Decl.   Delta     r    Elong. Phase   Mag.
July 14     9 08.08   - 1 22.2   1.915   1.196   32.9   27.5   12.2
      19     9 14.74   + 0 22.2   1.864   1.089   28.7   26.7   11.7
      24     9 21.88   + 2 12.0   1.805   0.977   24.6   25.6   11.2

Guy M Hurst