(Image Credit: Leonid Elenin).
Congratulations to Terry Lovejoy- news fresh out this morning- he has just discovered his 4th comet!
The new comet has been designated:
C/2013 R1 (LOVEJOY).
Discovery magnitude: 14.4.
More information
here.
Onya Terry!
Included in Terry's four comet discoveries was our famous Christmas comet of 2011. Catalogued as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), it was the first Kreutz Sungrazing comet discovered by ground based observation in over 40 years.