71kCCD image taken with the 2.2m telescope at ESO on September 12 by R. Schulz and J.-P. Tozzi
The first Swedish comet was discovered by Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist on a Schmidt film taken with the ESO Schmidt telescope, at La Silla, Chile. The photographic film was taken on September 10, 1996, during a search for Trojan asteroids in collaboration with U. Carsenty and S. Mottola, DLR, Berlin. The comet is faint (magnitude around 17, at the time of the discovery) and requires a larger telescope to be observed.
The discovery image (49k) taken with the ESO Schmidt telescope on September 10, 1996. The comet is the fuzzy line within the discovery marking made on the plate.
71k
CCD image taken with the
2.2m
telescope at
ESO on September 12 by
R. Schulz and J.-P. Tozzi