Amor NEO 2012 BB2

This NEO discovered by the LINEAR Survey has been confirmed from La Cañada, Ávila (among other obervatories) on observations conducted remotely from Madrid the night of 2012-January-19.

References : MPEC 2012-B20

NEOCP Object SYB6475 = COMET C/2011 Y3 (BOATTINI)

NEOCP object SYB6475 found by Andrea Boattini in the course of the Mount Lemmon Survey was observed on the night of 2011-Dec-26 from La Cañada. This is a cropped and zoomed (2X) detail of a stack consisting on the co-addition of 28 images tracking the object's movement which were taken centered on 2011-12-26 22:50 UT, the total exposure time is 56 min (2 min each)

C/2011 Y3 BOATTINI, 2011-Dec-26.95 UT La Cañada 

The object shows a round coma about 10 arc seconds in diameter with a tail extending about 35 arc seconds in position angle 235 deg (south west), the false colour rendition below tries to bring out the faint features.

C/2011 Y3 BOATTINI, 2011-Dec-26.95 UT La Cañada
False colour rendition

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION

COMET C/2011 Y3 (BOATTINI)
    A. Boattini reports his discovery of another comet on CCD images taken
with the Mount Lemmon 1.5-m reflector ....,
...  J. Lacruz (Madrid, Spain) writes that images
taken with a 0.40-m Ritchey-Chretien reflector at La Canada on Dec. 26.94-26.96
show a diffuse nuclear region with a round 10" coma and a short fan-like tail
extending about 35" toward p.a. 235.  ...

The published orbit asumes e=1, a parabolic comet with perihelion (q=5.5 AU) beyond the orbit of Jupiter.

References :  MPEC2011-Y50, CBET 2959, IAUC 9249