June 2001 observations

at 476 Grange Observatory

Recently Grange Obs. has returned active in astrometry, after a long period of discontinous observations.
Using new astrometric catalogues such as GSC-ACT, USNO-A2.0 and Tycho, as well as a new automatic measuring software, the Project Pluto's Charon, the comet C/1999 T1 and the asteroids 1990 SB and 2001 ME1 have been observed, reporting to MPC the following positions:

Observations (J2000.0) by Paolo Pognant.
Newton 0.3 m f/4 + CCD

    CJ99T010  C2001 06 11.92222 17 23 30.62 +76 48 32.9          14.5 T      476
    CJ99T010  C2001 06 11.93437 17 23 28.41 +76 48 33.7          14.5 T      476
    CJ99T010  C2001 06 11.94132 17 23 26.64 +76 48 33.9          14.5 T      476
     J90S00B  C2001 06 16.89062 18 29 52.12 +62 59 42.4          14.5        476
     J90S00B  C2001 06 19.89688 18 47 16.95 +63 37 56.1          14.0 V      476
     J90S00B  C2001 06 19.90347 18 47 19.19 +63 38 01.0          14.0 V      476
     J90S00B  C2001 06 19.91111 18 47 21.76 +63 38 06.4          14.0 V      476
     K01M01E  C2001 06 23.88733 15 39 10.90 -21 03 55.4          14.9 B      476
     K01M01E  C2001 06 23.89601 15 38 59.52 -21 03 41.0          14.9 B      476

At dawn of June 29th the 4.5 magn. comet C/2001 A2 has also been observed (but not astrometrically measured); a 1-minute summed image of the comet, taken around 2:40 U.T., is shown here below along with the contour map showing an asymmetric coma of 5':

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