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THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 3022      2014 Aug 20 19.45UT
Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise,  Basingstoke,
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COMET C/2014 Q2 (LOVEJOY)
Terry Lovejoy, Australia, reports his discovery of a comet on CCD images
with a 20-cm f/2.1 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope; he described the object as
small and well condensed with diameter 15" and a short, faint tail 1' long
in PA 225 degrees:

     2014 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Mag.   Observer
     Aug. 17.71993    6 47 58.86   -41 48 39.3   14.8   Lovejoy
          17.73262    6 48 00.29   -41 48 39.4   14.6     "
          18.75659    6 49 36.11   -41 46 36.9   14.7     "
          18.77605    6 49 38.24   -41 46 35.4   14.9     "

After an appeal from CBAT, C.Jacques et. al. report that a 300-s CCD
exposure taken with a 0.28-m f/2.2 astrograph at the SONEAR Observatory ,
Brazil, on 2014 Aug. 19.28 UT shows a condensed coma of diameter 25" and red
magnitude 14.8.

Gareth Williams reports on MPEC 2014-Q10 elements and ephemeris:

     T = 2015 Feb. 14.8649 TT         Peri. = 356.3469
                                      Node  = 104.7467  2000.0
     q = 1.776752 AU                  Incl. =  79.6007
>From 23 observations 2014 Aug. 17-19.

Ephemeris:
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.    m1
2014 08 04    06 25 26.0 -42 26 17   3.1739  2.9664    69.0    15.7
2014 08 12    06 38 48.4 -42 02 00   3.1016  2.8951    68.9    15.6
2014 08 18    06 48 25.1 -41 48 07   3.0453  2.8419    68.9    15.5
2014 08 19    06 49 58.9 -41 46 10   3.0358  2.8331    68.9    15.4
2014 08 20    06 51 32.2 -41 44 20   3.0261  2.8243    68.9    15.4
2014 08 26    07 00 37.1 -41 35 27   2.9670  2.7716    69.1    15.3
2014 09 03    07 12 02.2 -41 29 16   2.8842  2.7019    69.5    15.1
2014 09 18    07 31 02.2 -41 33 46   2.7145  2.5736    71.2    14.8

SUPERNOVA 2014by IN UGC 9267 (BOMBARDINI & VILLI)
2014by  Jly 15.86   14 27 49     +11 33 40    15.5:  
Dave Balam, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, National Research Council of
Canada; M. L. Graham, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, University
of California at Santa Barbara reports that a spectrogram of July 22.24 UT
with the 1.82-m Plaskett Telescope of the National Research Council of
Canada, shows it to be a type-Ia supernova approximately one week past
maximum light.

SUPERNOVA 2014bz (CONSEIL, TAROT)
2014bz  May  6.15   13 56 04.19  -43 35 09.9  16.9: 12  "E   36  "S 
Public images with the TAROT 0.25-m robotic telescope at La Silla
Observatory in Chile.
M. Childress: spectrum June 11 type-Ia about 10 days past maximum.

EDITOR'S ABSENCE
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Guy M Hurst