A/2025A1 denis buczynski (08 Mar 2026 13:38 UTC)
Re: [BAA Comets] A/2025A1 Nick James (08 Mar 2026 15:09 UTC)
Re: A/2025A1 Tim Haymes (12 Mar 2026 17:58 UTC)
Re: [BAA Comets] Re: A/2025A1 Nick James (13 Mar 2026 13:33 UTC)
Re: [BAA Comets] Re: A/2025A1 denis buczynski (12 Mar 2026 18:46 UTC)
Re: [BAA Comets] Re: A/2025A1 Tim Haymes (13 Mar 2026 09:06 UTC)

Re: [BAA Comets] Re: A/2025A1 Tim Haymes 13 Mar 2026 09:06 UTC
Hi Denis,
Thanks for noticing my mistake.  I attach a corrected version.
Cheers
Tim

On 12/03/2026 18:46, denis buczynski - buczynski8166 at btinternet.com
(via baa-comet list) wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> You have annotated the image A/2026 A1 instead of A/2025A1.
> Best wishes
> Denis
>
>
>
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>  Hi Nick, All:
>
>  Clear and dark this evening  2026 Mar 11.9
>
>      AK25A010 KC2026 03 11.94097 08 23 21.79 +37 44 56.2 18.22R     
> Y98      0.75 arcsec/pix
>
>  C11, F5.8, QHY174mGPS   38 x 1min track and stack.  9pix rad with
> Astrometrica, UCAC4, no filter.
>
>  Appears elongated about 9 arcsec.  The nearby bright star is TYC
> 2974-1998-1
>
>  Tim Haymes
>  Steeple Aston
>  Oxfordshire
>
>
>
>  On 08/03/2026 15:09, Nick James wrote:
>  > That's a good catch Denis. It clearly is a comet!
>  >
>  > This object was discovered on 2025 January 2 at Mt. Lemmon:
>  >
>  > https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25AA8.html
>  >
>  > It is in a cometary orbit and it gets to a distant perihelion (5.34
>  > au) in 2027 March in but it has not shown any signs of cometary
>  > activity up to now. It is well-placed for observation from the UK
>  > moving very slowly through Lynx and images over the next few weeks
>  > would allow us to track its behaviour. Please obtain magnitude
>  > estimates in a 9 arcsec radius if you can. It is around 18th
> magnituxde.
>  >
>  > The latest observations in the MPC database are here:
>  >
>  >
> https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=AK25A010
>  >
>  >
>  > Nick.
>  >
>  >
>  > On 08/03/2026 13:38, denis buczynski - buczynski8166 at btinternet.com
>  > (via baa-comet list) wrote:
>  >> I observed A 2025 A1 this week and found that it displayed cometary
>  >> features (coma and a short broad tail) I asked Dan Green ICQ to ask
>  >> for confirmation. He replied back " David Rankin (Catalina) and Rob
>  >> Weryk (PanSTARRS)
>  >> both confirm their their recent images show cometary appearance."
>  >> Can other imagers add this object to their observing run.
>  >> Denis Buczynski  MPC I81
>  >> Image attached
>  >
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