------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 2584 2009 Sep 22 15.39UT 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- COMET P/2009 R2 (PIGOTT-LINEAR-KOWALSKI) Further to the note on TA E-Circular 2582, the first set of elements and second were inadvertently repeated during collation of information from various sources. The first set of elements after the comment about Peter Birtwhistle's observations should be substituted with: Epoch = 2003 Feb. 10.0 TT T = 2003 Feb. 1.2551 TT Peri. = 357.0844 e = 0.480777 Node = 55.1940 2000.0 q = 1.915714 AU Incl. = 46.2617 a = 3.689579 AU n = 0.1390717 P = 7.09 years SUPERNOVA 2009hz IN UGC 11499 Discovery by LOSS of a possible supernova (CBET 1897): SN 2009 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset 2009hz Aug 03.30 19 56 50.61 +49 53 15.7 17.8 19.4"E, 6.4"N Guy M Hurst