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COMET C/2022 J1 (Maury-Attard)

A. Maury reports the discovery of a comet in survey images taken on May 5
UT by MAP (W94), noting a condensed 6" coma and a broad 18" tail at position
angle 220 - 260 deg.

Orbital elements:
C/2022 J1 (Maury-Attard)
Epoch 2022 Jan. 21.0 TT = JDT 2459600.5
T 2022 Feb. 16.76045 TT Rudenko
q 1.5765573 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.00760218 Peri. 303.79116 +0.31992072 +0.00672173
a 25.6159540 Node 280.57461 -0.14568301 -0.98773370
e 0.9384541 Incl. 105.46603 -0.93617690 +0.15600304
P 130
From 103 observations 2022 May 5-10, mean residual 0".5.

The following ephemeris by the undersigned from the above orbital elements
uses photometric power-law parameters H = 13.5 and 2.5n = 8 for the
magnitudes.

Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag.
2022 04 11 21 54.71 -32 15.3 1.973 1.758 62.8 30.5 16.9
2022 04 16 21 50.68 -30 53.9 1.907 1.783 67.5 31.3 16.9
2022 04 21 21 45.76 -29 30.8 1.837 1.810 72.5 32.0 16.9
2022 04 26 21 39.83 -28 04.9 1.766 1.839 77.9 32.3 16.9
2022 05 01 21 32.73 -26 35.2 1.693 1.870 83.5 32.4 16.8
2022 05 06 21 24.30 -25 00.2 1.621 1.902 89.6 32.0 16.8
2022 05 11 21 14.38 -23 18.6 1.550 1.936 96.0 31.2 16.7
2022 05 16 21 02.84 -21 28.8 1.482 1.972 102.9 30.0 16.7
2022 05 21 20 49.56 -19 29.4 1.420 2.008 110.2 28.2 16.7
2022 05 26 20 34.52 -17 19.2 1.366 2.046 117.8 26.0 16.7
2022 05 31 20 17.75 -14 58.2 1.321 2.084 125.9 23.2 16.7
2022 06 05 19 59.48 -12 27.6 1.289 2.124 134.1 20.1 16.7
2022 06 10 19 40.06 -09 50.1 1.271 2.164 142.1 16.7 16.7
2022 06 15 19 20.00 -07 10.5 1.269 2.206 149.5 13.5 16.8
2022 06 20 18 59.91 -04 34.2 1.285 2.248 155.2 10.9 16.9
2022 06 25 18 40.37 -02 07.1 1.317 2.290 157.8 9.7 17.0
2022 06 30 18 21.94 +00 06.1 1.366 2.334 156.5 10.0 17.1
2022 07 05 18 05.02 +02 02.5 1.430 2.378 152.3 11.5 17.3