384P/Kowlaski 2019-Nov-29 Charles Bell

384P/Kowalski
2019-Nov-29 09:37:24 UTC
Exposure 2700 secs R filter
Sky Motion 0.20"/min PA 272.1
ra 122.89381 dec +43.99858
Magnitude 17.75 +/- 0.04 R photAp 8.5 arcsec UCAC4
Af rho R = 1.1 cm rho = 2467.4 km (very small)
Coma diameter 13 arcsec
Tail 107 arcsec PA 270
Charles Bell H47 Vicksburg
0.3-m Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD + R filter

JPL Horizons Ephemeris Data:
JD = 2458816.90097
t - T = +49.34323 days
RA 122.89356 Dec 43.99717
Delta = 0.405 au
r = 1.274 au
Elong. = 127.4 deg
Phase = 38.0 deg
PsAng = 264.3 deg antisolar direction
PsAMV = 308.3 deg -v direction
PlAng = -17.1 deg orbit plane angle
True Anomaly = 47.5 deg
Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)

384P was discovered at magnitude 18.1 by Richard Kowalski on Catalina Sky Survey images taken 2014-Oct-18.
The comet was past its perihelion at discovery and was observed until January 2015 when it faded to 20th magnitude.
Hidetaka Sato of Tokyo, Japan, recovered the comet at 20th magnitude on 2019-Jul-27.
384P is a Jupiter-family Comet with an orbital period of 4.94 years.
384P/Kowalski passed perihelion on 2019-Oct-11 at 1.116 au when it reached peak brightness near magnitude 17.5.

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