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                                                  Circular No. 3119
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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PERIODIC COMET CHERNYKH (1977l)
     Further precise positions have been reported as follows:

     1977 UT             R. A. (1950) Decl.        m1    Observer
     Sept. 4.64375     0 17 11.18   - 4 18 01.9          Seki
           6.90259     0 16 23.82   - 4 29 28.9          Chernykh
           6.91301     0 16 23.62   - 4 29 32.2            "
          10.5830      0 14 57.7    - 4 48 38     14     Furuta
          10.5997      0 14 57.0    - 4 48 40              "
          10.65729     0 14 55.64   - 4 49 02.7          Urata
          11.41882     0 14 36.72   - 4 53 01.0          Gilmore
          11.45597     0 14 35.71   - 4 53 12.3            "
          14.62674     0 13 11.54   - 5 10 18.3   13     Urata
          14.63576     0 13 11.19   - 5 10 19.9            "
          16.52469     0 12 18.57   - 5 20 37.2   14     Furuta
          16.53370     0 12 18.33   - 5 20 38.6            "
          16.60278     0 12 16.31   - 5 21 05.9   12     Koishikawa
          16.68409     0 12 13.91   - 5 21 32.6            "
          16.74624     0 12 12.05   - 5 21 51.2   12.5   Urata
          16.75081     0 12 11.84   - 5 21 52.7            "
          17.59931     0 11 47.61   - 5 26 28.2   12     Tsuchiya
          17.62164     0 11 46.93   - 5 26 37.1            "
          18.63542     0 11 17.24   - 5 32 05.7          Seki
          23.71424     0 08 43.71   - 5 59 20.5   13.0   Tsuchiya
          23.72813     0 08 43.29   - 5 59 26.5            "

T. Seki (Kochi Observatory, Geisei Station).
N. S. Chernykh (Crimean Astrophysical Observatory).  Reduced at
   I.T.A., Leningrad.  Communicated by G. R. Kastel'.
T. Furuta (Kagiya and Tokai, Aichi).  Kagiya on Sept. 10, Tokai on
   Sept. 16.  From Orient. Astron. Assoc. Comet Bull. No. 152.
T. Urata (JCPM Yakiimo Station).  Sept. 10: poor conditions.  Sept.
   16: ~ 2' tail in p.a. 260o.  From Nihondaira Obs. Circ. No. 890.
A. C. Gilmore (Carter Observatory).  Measurer: P. M. Kilmartin.
M. Koishikawa (Sendai Observatory, Ayashi Station).  20-cm reflector.
   From Yamamoto Circ. No. 1863.
K. Tsuchiya (JCPM Asahikawa).  20-cm reflector.  Measurer: M..
   Takeishi.  From Japan Astron. Circ. Nos. 116 and 118.

     J. Bortle, Brooks Observatory, provides further total visual
magnitudes (32-cm reflector): Sept. 15.33 UT, 12.7; Oct. 5.14, 12.6.


1977 October 13                (3119)              Brian G. Marsden

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