MASTER Bright Comet Discovery

ATel #13619; Y. Kechin , S. Bodrov, V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, V. Kornilov, N. Tiurina, (Lomonosov MSU), N. M. Budnev (ISU, API), R. Podesta, C. Lopez, F. Podesta, C. Francile (OAFA), H. Levato(ICATE), R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodiu (IAC), D. Buckley (SAAO), O. Gress, P. Balanutsa, I. Gorbunov, A. Kuznetsov, V. Vladimirov, D. Zimnukhov
on 6 Apr 2020; 12:33 UT
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Credential Certification: Nataly Tyurina (tiurina@sai.msu.ru)

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MASTER-OAFA auto-detection system ( Lipunov et al., "MASTER Global Robotic Net", Advances in Astronomy, 2010, 30L ) discovered moved source with a comet activity (tail) at (RA, Dec) = 17h 06m 08.06s -77d 28m 13.4s on 2020-03-28.26086 UT. The unfiltered OT magnitude (close to R) is 15.8m (upper limit at an image 19.5).

The comet is seen in 3 images at discovery date and in 3 images a 1 week later. There is no known minor planet at this place.

After discovery at MASTER-OAFA we found this comet at 6 image in MASTER-SAAO database 16-th, 21-th and 22-th of Marth.

MASTER-net observations of new comet M60B7LC listed at table below.

 
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 16.96882 16 53 33.50 -75 37 12.3          15.8 MASTER-SAAO (K95)  
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 16.97808 16 53 34.04 -75 37 17.8          15.9 MASTER-SAAO (K95)  
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 21.98847 16 59 30.07 -76 26 59.4          15.8 MASTER-SAAO (K95)  
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 21.99773 16 59 30.72 -76 27 05.0          15.8 MASTER-SAAO (K95)  
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 22.99568 17 00 38.08 -76 36 55.0          15.8 MASTER-SAAO (K95)  
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 23.00307 17 00 38.59 -76 36 59.9          15.7 MASTER-SAAO (K95)  
     M60B7LC* C2020 03 28.24723 17 06 08.06 -77 28 13.4          15.8 MASTER-OAFA (W92) 
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 28.26190 17 06 08.60 -77 28 21.6          15.8 MASTER-OAFA (W92) 
     M60B7LC  C2020 03 28.27168 17 06 09.08 -77 28 27.3          15.8 MASTER-OAFA (W92) 
     M60B7LC* C2020 04 05.33289 17 12 58.86 -78 45 21.6          16.1 MASTER-OAFA (W92) 
     M60B7LC  C2020 04 05.34939 17 12 58.89 -78 45 29.9          15.9 MASTER-OAFA (W92) 
     M60B7LC  C2020 04 05.35681 17 12 59.36 -78 45 34.4          16.6 MASTER-OAFA (W92) 

The discovery images are available at: http://www.pereplet.ru/lipunov/images/M60B7LC.gif

The ephemerides are available at: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/pccp_tabular.html

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