Electronic Telegram No. 4073
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
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COMET C/2015 D1 (SOHO)
     M. Masek, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague; J. Jurysek,
Charles University, Prague; J. Cerny, Czech Astronomical Society; and M.
Jelinek, R. Cunniffe, and A. J. Castro-Tirado, Institute for Astrophysics of
Andalucia, Granada, report that comet C/2015 D1 (cf. CBET 4067) is visible as
a cigar-shaped object with no bright condensation at all at the expected
position on nineteen 30-s stacked CCD images obtained on Feb. 27.800-27.814
UT using the 0.15-m f/2.8 refractor at the BOOTES-1 astronomical station at
El Arenosillo, Spain.  The size of the elongated dust cloud is about 31' x
5' toward position angle 82 degrees (spanning p.a. 77 -93 degrees).  The
estimated total V magnitude is 8.0 +/- 0.3.


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2015 March 2                     (CBET 4073)              Daniel W. E. Green