It was nearly 2am one day last month when Ms McCormick decided to ditch the planet hunt in her home observatory and measure the position and orbit of a comet.
"I was measuring away and feeling tired, so I thought I'd better check the data," she says.
"I'm looking at the cometary data and there was this little thing moving through the field that I thought shouldn't be there."
She promptly sent the object's co-ordinates to double check with the American database.
Sure enough, no one had seen it before.
Is that a 20" meade shes got in her observatory. Certainly looks like an SCT
It certainly looks big, but it is just a trick of the camera from the way the image was taken. It's hard to tell what size it is though, might be a 12" or a 14"? It is definately a Meade LX200 scope.
Well spotted! 
