Comet Loneos

Post by **rcj** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:12 pm

There is an emerging upcoming comet that could be promising for visual observers and imagers - Comet LONEOS (C/2007 F1). Right now it is not observable from our location in Singapore, and is currently at 8.7mag (based on September 23rd estimate), but is much brighter than originally expected. It will be about 0.4AU from the Sun on October 28th and is slated to be brightening rapidly after that. It can possibly reach magnitude 4 in mid October. Nevertheless, the conditions for observing is quite hard for us (very close to the sun) until early November where the comet will be in Libra/Scorpius region.

Some notes:
Comet Discovery Date: March 19, 2007
Comet Magnitude (then): 19.5
Discoverer: Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search

Orbital Notes:
Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5
T 2007 Oct. 28.64521 TT MPC
q 0.4016456 (2000.0) P Q
z -0.0003693 Peri. 153.73361 +0.91390993 +0.39031906
+/-0.0000752 Node 172.87554 -0.08340572 -0.08811992
e 1.0001483 Incl. 116.03104 +0.39725573 -0.91645290

Reference:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K07/K07K76.html

Post by **rcj** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:14 pm

currently already at naked eye magnitude visibility. tonight it will be near the star Murphid which is next to the star Arcturus in Bootes. But it will be very low for us in Singapore to see in the early evening. Nevertheless, good to know!

boothee · Post by **boothee** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:44 pm

Wow! Thank for your info. Interesting . . .

boothee

Post by **Airconvent** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:33 pm

boothee wrote:Wow! Thank for your info. Interesting . . .

boothee

Hi Boothee
Welcome back ! Was a little worried when internet connection in Myanmar was cut off recently. Hope everything is ok for you now.

Remus : Thanks for the tip....I wonder if this would be another surprise Hale Bopp? :-)

boothee · Post by **boothee** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:36 pm

Airconvent wrote:Hi Boothee
Welcome back ! Was a little worried when internet connection in Myanmar was cut off recently. Hope everything is ok for you now.

Hello greetings from Sunny Yangon! Thank you!

Our family is save as we live near the airport which is away for something happened recently.

For the comet, I've alerted our group and we are going to observe very soon. I will upload the picture if we get one.

boothee