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IAUC 8274: P/2003 SQ_215; 2004L; DO Dra

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                                                  Circular No. 8274
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COMET P/2003 SQ_215 (NEAT-LONEOS)
     An apparently asteroidal object reported independently by the
NEAT and LONEOS projects (discovery observations below, from MPS
86352) has been found to show a nonstellar appearance in individual
30-s R-band images taken by A. Fitzsimmons and C. Snodgrass,
Queen's University of Belfast, and O. Hainaut, European Southern
Observatory (ESO), on 2004 Jan. 19.0 UT at the ESO 3.6-m New
Technology Telescope (+ SUSI-2 camera).  Fitzsimmons adds that co-
addition of the frames shows an asymmetric coma of total mag 20.3
extending 1".7 in p.a. 130 deg.

     2003 UT             R.A. (2000) Decl.       Mag.   Observer
     Sept.24.18377   21 42 42.67   - 5 13 24.2   18.9   NEAT
          27.16490   21 41 46.21   - 5 22 30.6   18.7   LONEOS

Additional astrometry (see also MPEC 2004-A38), the following
orbital elements, and an ephemeris appear on MPEC 2004-B35.

                    Epoch = 2004 Mar. 16.0 TT
     T = 2004 Mar. 24.2293 TT         Peri. = 137.3029
     e = 0.581259                     Node  = 257.6406  2000.0
     q = 2.304226 AU                  Incl. =   5.5459
       a =  5.502741 AU    n = 0.0763546    P =  12.908 years


SUPERNOVA 2004L IN MCG +03-27-38
     Further to IAUC 8273, H. Pugh and W. Li report the LOSS
discovery, on KAIT images taken on Jan. 21.4 (mag about 16.9) and
22.4 UT (mag about 16.8), of an apparent supernova located at R.A.
= 10h27m04s.11, Decl. = +16o01'07".3 (J2000), which is 2".5 east
and 3".1 north of the nucleus of MCG +03-27-38.  A KAIT image on
2003 Nov. 25.4 showed nothing at this position (limiting mag about
19.0).


DO DRACONIS
     A. Price, AAVSO, reports that DO Dra (cf. IAUC 7260) is in
outburst for the first time since 2000 Nov. 15 (when it peaked at
m_v = 10.1 and faded to quiescence in 4 days), as indicated by the
following visual magnitude estimates:  Jan. 23.229 UT, 14.5 (M.
Simonsen, Imlay City, MI); 23.733, 11.4 (W. Kriebel, Osterwaal,
Germany); 23.758, 11.0 (C. Otten, Kinrooi, Belgium); 23.808, 11.5
(W. Renz, Karlsruhe, Germany).

                      (C) Copyright 2004 CBAT
2004 January 23                (8274)            Daniel W. E. Green

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