Вот сообщения:Some details and follow-ups on this object:Yiran Wu (39.979deg N, 116.299deg E, northwest suburb of Beijing)found the object in Aries by naked-eye and immediately reported to meat 11:21 UT (hereafter). Her estimation of total magnitude isabout -2 ("somewhat bighter than Sirius").I myself (39.883deg N, 116.617deg E) saw the object with a 12x60binocular. The object had a typical cometary apperance with aslightly curved tail towards SE-E, at 11:24. Core magnitude was about+0.5, total magnitude about -1.5.Hongbin Li at Xinglong Station, NAOC (40.396deg N, 117.578deg E,mountain top; MPC code: 327) asked me via internet if there is a verybright comet in the western sky at 11:34. But he said that he foundthat object about 20min earlier.The 0.8-m Tsinghua-NAOC telescope had pointed in turn to 179P and150P since 11:40, but found it was neither of them.Yiran Wu reported the object, especially the core, was rapidlyfading, at 11:43. And could no longer found it since ~11:59. HongbinLi also found the object was expanding, decaying and slowly movingtoward the north, and finally disappeared to naked-eye at 12:14, near382 Per.Indeed it seems to be the fuel dump as you supposed.. My apologiesfor the false alert.Kind regards,HuanJust a quick note:There seems to be a GREAT comet in the western sky at this moment inBeijing. In binocular it is very spectacular with a bright fan-liketail generally toward the anti-solar direction. The total magnitudemay be 0 or -1 so something like that. I have contacted my colleaguesin the western part of city of Beijing and they have confirmed thefindings. Meanwhile, the staff in Xinglong station, NationalAstronomical Observatories of China, also reported to me that theysee the same bright object. We are managing to take CCD images andspectrum of that. But this may be difficult since it is very low andstill setting.Observers in West Asia and Europe, PLEASE point your eyes andtelescope to catch the event!I'll send more information later..Clear skies to all!Huan Meng
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