116P/Wild
Paul Wild of Switzerland found this comet on January,21 1990.
The latest IAU telegrams or the latest CBET's. IAUC Astronomical Headlines.
Minor
planet center's orbital elements and Ephemeris,
the comet on
Seiichi Yoshida's Homepage,
Gary W.
Kronk's Cometography
Light
curves on Cometas Obs,
JPL Small body
database
Meanwhile from our Earth perspective, the direction of the main
tail changed to the "other" side of the comet.
Compare this image with the images below.
� 2009-04-12 by Bernhard Haeusler, Maidbronn, Germany
24 x 5 min. exposure,
2009-05-12, UT 20:44, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.90 mag, coma: 0'24", tail: 1'59" in PA
114�
The tail in PA 288� has a lenght of over 14'!
� 2009-03-20 by Bernhard Haeusler, Maidbronn, Germany
23 x 10 min. exposure,
2009-03-20, UT 22:12, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.76 mag, coma: 0'45", tail:14'36" in PA 288�, anti tail: 1'46" in PA
113�
Depending on its visual orbit angle, the comet has 2 tails counterwise in these days.
left image: � 2009-03-17 by Bernhard Haeusler, Maidbronn, Germany, comet movement: 0.22"/min., image centered on the stars
3 x 5 min. exposure,
2009-03-17, UT 23:15, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.73 mag, coma: 0'45", tail:1'24" in PA 113�, anti tail: 1'17" in PA
300�
right image: � 2009-03-17 by Bernhard Haeusler, Maidbronn, Germany, image centered on the comet
22 x 5 min. exposure,
2009-03-17, UT 23:15 to UT 01:08, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.73 mag, coma: 0'45", tail:1'24" in PA 113�, anti tail: 1'17" in PA
300�
After three weeks of confusion I
could identify my new object on the following two images as 2009 BK163 and 2009
BR163, detected by Spacewatch
at January, 31 2009.
Finally I found two objects on two different images, not a single one.
They had a similiar orbit, so I could easlily mismatch them. March, 7 2009
On Febr.,19 I could find the new object again on this image of comet 116P/Wild. The MPC confirmed the new object at February, 23 2009 with the number K09C45D
� 2009-02-19 by Bernhard Haeusler Germany
10 x 3 min. exposure,
2009-02-19, UT 02:25 to
02:56, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.51 mag, coma: 0'48", tail: 2'14" in PA 279�
Blinking a series of 60 images (total 180min.) of comet
116P/Wild at this day,
At this image I found three asteroids, two of them are already
known, one of them is a new object.
The MPC confirmed the new object at February, 23 2009 with the number
K09C45D
At February, 19 I
found the new object on another of my images of 116P/Wild by chance!
� 2009-02-15 by Bernhard Haeusler Germany
5 x 3 min. exposure,
2009-02-15, UT 01:10 to
01:29, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.55 mag, coma: 0'48", tail: 2'35" in PA 279�
� 2009-02-03 by Bernhard Haeusler Germany
40 x 3 min. exposure,
2009-02-03, UT 02:20 to
04:23, 12" SCT
f-7 + CCD ST10XME
14.9 mag, coma: 0'20", tail: 3'30" in PA 285�
Movie: high quality .avi (17,904 KB); good quality .wmv (264 KB)
� 2009-01-30 by Josef M�ller, Germany
6 x 180 sec. exposure,
2009-01-30.148, 30cm Newton f-4.8+ CCD
Starlight SXV-H9
14.5 mag, coma: 0,8', tail: 3.5' in PA 279�