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C/2008 S3 (BOATTINI)

CBET 8986 announced  that A. Boattini reports his discovery of a comet on CCD images obtained with the 1.5-m reflector at Mt. Lemmon (discovery observation tabulated below), the comet having strong condensation with a coma about 10" wide but elongated about 15" at p.a. approximately 115 deg.

Photometric data obtained from FOCAS-II software

                                   10x10  20x20  30x30  40x40  50x50  60x60   SNR   SB   COD

OBJECT        DATE       TIME        +/-    +/-    +/-    +/-    +/-    +/-     N  FWHM  CAT

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C/2008 S3     08/10/2010 22:41:06  17.85  17.35  17.28  17.04  16.97  17.06   5.1  17.3  B96

C/2008 S3     08/10/2010 22:41:06*  0.14   0.22   0.21   0.37   0.46   0.84     7   4.4  USN

C/2008 S3     23/07/2012 02:24:45  17.98  17.70  17.74                        6.3  17.1  B96

C/2008 S3     23/07/2012 02:24:45*  0.17   0.08   0.08                          5   3.6  USN

C/2008 S3     25/07/2012 01:36:41  17.93  17.35  17.22                        6.9  17.7  B96

C/2008 S3     25/07/2012 01:36:41*  0.16   0.14   0.27                          3   4.0  USN

C/2008 S3     19/08/2012 00:00:21  18.07  17.65  17.43                        2.3  17.8  B96

C/2008 S3     19/08/2012 00:00:21*  0.08   0.24   0.40                          4   4.5  CMC

C/2008 S3     07/09/2012 23:20:08  18.10  17.82  17.84                        4.3  18.2  B96

C/2008 S3     07/09/2012 23:20:08*  0.08   0.20   0.29                          7   4.0  CMC