Comet P/Tritton: sorry only a star

Bernd Brinkmann Feb 12, 2003

Hello André

> >> I've done astrometry for a comet only named "P/Tritton" in Guide. But
> >> what is the actual designation? I need it for my MPC report. It's
> >> located in Aries near RA 01h58m DE +17.5 deg.
>
>
> I think it is 95P (0095P for the MPC report):
>
> http://www.bdl.fr/ephem/comets/HTML/english/CIA0051.html

thanks for your fast reply. I just realized that too. But to my
disappointment I ralized that the object was only a 15.5 mag star from
the USNO-A 2.0 catalog (not in GSC dataset). Further search showed
that this comet is apparently lost.

It looked like a comet because I stacked several images with
Astrometrica with the apparent motion which Guide supplied. But I just
measured 2 further sets of images 2 hours apart and nothing moved.
But why didn't use Astrometrica it as a reference star ...

That's live.
Clear skies
Bernd

Bernd Brinkmann
Herne, Germany

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