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Thanks Mike, yes, as usual it was a great team effort.
After I realised the object was new, I checked for asteroids, variable stars, and previous discoveries in that galaxy, and then notified Peter who managed to get a second image between thick clouds to confirm that it was a real object and had not moved. Meanwhile Colin and I did the astrometric analysis for position and magnitude, then Col posted the TOCP, and I prepared the verbose report for the CBAT.
The only things that didn't play ball were the clouds, and my laptop that blue-screened just before I sent the CBAT report!! That cost me another hour between 12:30am and 1:30 am preparing another report for CBAT!
The really unusual aspect of this discovery is that Stu slept through the whole thing!. I guess being 3 hours ahead of us can get in the way a bit. He missed out on the fun and excitement for a change....
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