New Comet: C/2013 G7 (McNAUGHT)

April 18, 2013
Cbet nr. 3476, issued on 2013, April 16, announces the discovery of a new comet (discovery magnitude ~18) by R. H. McNaught on CCD images obtained with the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring on april 13.6. The new comet has been designated C/2013 G7 (McNAUGHT).

We performed follow-up measurements of this object, while it was still on the neocp. Stacking of 17 R-filtered exposures, 40-sec each, obtained remotely from Haleakala-Faulkes Telescope North on 2013, April 15.4, through a 2.0-m f/10.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD (operated by Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network), shows that this object is a comet: compact coma about 6" in diameter.

M.P.E.C. 2013-H10 assigns the following preliminary parabolic orbital elements to comet C/2013 G7: T 2014 Apr. 20.34; e= 1.0; Peri. = 225.32; q = 4.38;  Incl.= 104.11

Images of C/2013 G7 (McNAUGHT) taken in collaboration with the Faulkes Project and:
Shooters Hill Post 16 Campus - Errol Simpson

by Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes

Source:
http://remanzacco.blogspot.ch/2013/04/new-comet-c2013-g7-mcnaught.html