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Past, Present, and Future Orbits by Kazuo Kinoshita |
![]() Copyright © 1995 by Herman Mikuz (Crni Vhr Observatory, Slovenia)
This CCD image was obtained by H. Mikuz on 1995 September 23. He used a 36-cm S-C telescope (working at f/6.8), CCD and V filter. This is a 300-second exposure. Discovery Cyril Jackson (Union Observatory, South Africa) discovered this comet on September 20 while examining photographic plates exposed for minor planets on September 15. He described it as faint and diffuse, with a total magnitude of 12. On September 21, Grigory N. Neujmin (Simeis, Russia) independently discovered the comet. The comet was in Aquarius. Historical Highlights
Additional Images ![]() Copyright © 1995 by Tim Puckett
This image was taken by Tim Puckett (Villa Rica, Georgia) on 1995 November 17.04, using a 0.30-m f/7 Meade LX-200 and an SBIG ST-6 CCD camera. It is a 300-second exposure. |