Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
IAUC 3189: 1978 CA; 1978 DA; 1978c
The following International Astronomical Union Circular may be linked-to from your own Web pages, but must not otherwise be redistributed (see these notes on the conditions under which circulars are made available on our WWW site).
Read IAUC 3190
Circular No. 3189
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
Postal Address: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Cable Address: SATELLITES, NEWYORK Telex: 921428
Telephone: (617) 864-5758
1978 CA
Accurate and semiaccurate positions are reported as follows:
1978 UT R. A. (1950) Decl. Observer
Feb. 17.25794 10 23 55.29 -20 09 15.6 Schuster
18.28083 10 23 02.43 -18 49 49.7 "
Mar. 1.03091 10 10 03.45 + 3 43 32.7 "
8.31229 9 56 24.3 +28 25 30 Bowell
H.-E. Schuster (European Southern Obs.). Measurer: R. M. West.
E. Bowell (Lowell Observatory). On Mar. 8.307 UT, V = 14.54, B-V =
+0.80, U-B = +0.53.
1978 DA
Accurate and semiaccurate positions are reported as follows:
1978 UT R. A. (1950) Decl. Observer
Mar. 1.09636 11 31 43.73 -15 14 09.9 Schuster
2.14245 11 39 34.80 -14 20 36.8 "
8.32916 12 41 27.1 - 6 07 02 Bowell
H.-E. Schuster (European Southern Obs.). Measurer: R. M. West.
E. Bowell (Lowell Observatory). On Mar. 8.324 UT, V = 13.85, B-V =
+0.74, U-B = +0.47.
COMET BRADFIELD (1978c)
The following semiaccurate position was obtained by H.-E.
Schuster with the 100-cm Schmidt telescope at E.S.O.:
1978 UT R. A. (1950) Decl.
Mar. 8.40660 21 34 49.7 -11 42 33
The 3-min blue exposure shows a 6' tail to the southwest.
E. P. Ney and D. A. Brodzik, University of Minnesota, report
infrared observations obtained at the O'Brien Observatory on Mar.
4.7 UT with a diaphragm 27" in diameter: 3.6 um, 4.5; 4.8 um, 2.6;
8.5 um, -0.6; 10.6 um, -1.3; 12.5 um, -1.6.
1978 March 9 (3189) Brian G. Marsden
Read IAUC 3190
Our Web policy. Index to the CBAT/MPC/ICQ pages.
