By Steven Bellavia | 2024-09-30
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Comet A11bP7I
On 09/28/2024 06:44 pm by Filipp Romanov| Siding Spring Observatory, Australia
I confirmed comet A11bP7I remotely using iTelescope.Net T32 (0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD) at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia - MPC Q62. I used the Luminance filter, the magnitude of the central part of the coma measured in one 60-sec image (from comparison to V magnitudes of nearby stars from APASS DR9 catalogue - Henden et al., 2016) is 15.5 CV on 2024-09-28 18:25 UT. The coma is up to 30 arcseconds in diameter in the stacked image (with different shutter speeds are equivalent to 20x30 sec.).
It's possible Kreutz sungrazer comet and it may be bright in a month.
