Colored image of ItKa01 by Lulin One-meter Telescope, measured and proceed by Q.-z. Ye

Colored image of ItKa01 by Lulin One-meter Telescope, measured and proceed by Q.-z. Ye

　　今晚正打算延续前几天2310睡觉计划的光荣传统，正要睡觉，赵晋突然QQ说有颗很亮的新彗星刚被发现~ （哎，离职LUSS之后基本都不看NEOCP了，退化了~）随手一看，是日本人2小时前刚刚发现的，还在等待确认。哎，日本人，勤奋精神真是没说的…… 鹿林正好在台风边缘，天气也勉强可以，就请山上助理看看有没有时间，结果答复说一米镜有时间，哈哈，对着目标区域一阵狂轰，给CBAT写了份报告：

H.-Y. Hsiao and I (Q.-z. Ye) had just taken several 30-second exposured images of ItKa01 by the 1.02-m reflector, located at Lulin Observatory, with Johnson B, V, R filter and clear filter. Seeing is around 1.1". Initial magnitude measurements showed the brightness of ItKa01 is 17.3, 15.3 and 16.1 on B, V and R band respectively. A 70-80" coma was spotted, with a wide, short tail to P.A.~110deg at a length of 1'.

A colored image combined with C, B, V and R band can be seen at http://yeiht.y234.cn/wordpress/?p=717.

     ItKa01   C2008 09 10.68495 20 39 27.18 -01 20 29.5          17.3        D35
     ItKa01   C2008 09 10.68581 20 39 27.26 -01 20 31.5          15.3 V      D35
     ItKa01   C2008 09 10.68667 20 39 27.29 -01 20 31.9          16.3 R      D35
     ItKa01   C2008 09 10.68966 20 39 27.55 -01 20 36.7          16.1 R      D35
     ItKa01   C2008 09 10.69062 20 39 27.60 -01 20 37.5          15.9 R      D35

　　这个彗星挺彗星样的，没劲儿，一米镜发挥不出什么优势来。回头一看，貌似是中野主一已经用东京天文台的1米也追到了这个目标，彗星无疑了。初步的轨道显示是个短周期？不知道是不是，哎，大约让日本人钓到大鱼了…… 把三个通道叠加了一下，照片也贴在这里给大家玩赏玩赏吧。

　　OK，这一个lunar period的任务结束，收工，过中秋~~~ 提前祝各位中秋节快乐~~~