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Date:  20070909

Session:  Comet 16P Recovery 20070910

Detections:  1

Submissions:  3

This night I attempted to recover the comet 16P/Brooks.  I thought the comet had not been observed since 2001, but after I submitted observations of the object, I found that it had already been recovered by Siding Spring a few nights earlier.  But either way, I was able to find the comet with 1.5 minute exposures stacked in groups of 10 to create 4 images equaling 15 total exposure time per image.  The comet was at magnitude 19.3 at the time of observing and was barely noticeable in the images.  The residuals of error in the observations were slightly high, but I submitted them anyhow.  They can be found below.

0016P         C2007 09 10.05277 17 02 20.90 -18 46 25.8                           H68
0016P         C2007 09 10.06334 17 02 21.27 -18 46 30.3          18.6 N      H68
0016P         C2007 09 10.07399 17 02 21.54 -18 46 32.1          19.2 N      H68