384P/Kowalski 2019-Nov-24 Charles Bell

384P/Kowalski
2019-Nov-24 09:21:16 UTC
Exposure 2700 secs R filter
Sky motion 0.048 arcsec/min PA 044.7
ra 122.90358 dec +43.96688
Magnitude 17.56 +/- 0.04 R photAp 8.4 arcsec UCAC4
Coma diameter 8 arcsec 2300 km
Tail 53 arcsec PA 270 3.5 million km
Charles Bell H47 Vicksburg
0.3-m Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD + R filter
Rendering and annotations with SAOImageDS9 version 8.0

JPL Horizons Ephemeris Data:
JD = 2458811.88977
t - T = +44.39367 days
RA 122.90384 Dec 43.96697
Delta = 0.393 au
r = 1.246 au
Elong. = 122.9 deg
Phase = 41.7 deg
PsAng = 267.4 deg antisolar direction
PsAMV = 310.2 deg -v direction
PlAng = -17.1 deg orbit plane angle
True Anomaly = 43.3 deg
Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)

384P was discovered at magnitude 18.1 by Richard Kowalski on Catalina Sky Survey images taken 2014-Oct-18.
The comet was past its perihelion at discovery and was observed until January 2015 when it faded to 20th magnitude.
Hidetaka Sato of Tokyo, Japan, recovered the comet at 20th magnitude on 2019-Jul-27.
384P is a Jupiter-family Comet with an orbital period of 4.94 years.
384P/Kowalski passed perihelion on 2019-Oct-11 at 1.116 au when it reached peak brightness near magnitude 17.5.