C/2023 V4 (Camarasa-

Duszanowicz)

Type: Hyperbolic Perihelion date: 30 May 2024 Perihelion distance (q): 1.1 Aphelion distance (Q) : n/a Period (years): n/a Eccentricity (e): 1.0 Inclination (i): 67.1 JPL orbit diagram COBS lightcurve Atlas Jordi Camarasa (Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain) and Grzegorz Duszanowicz (Akersberga, Sweden) discovered a somewhat-diffuse comet in CMOS-camera images taken on 5 November 2023 using two 0.28-m f/1.9 Schmidt-Cassegrain (Celestron C11) telescopes located at Duszanowicz's "Moonbase South Observatory" at the Hakos "Astro Farm" in Namibia. This was confirmed by follow up images by themselves and other astrometrists. Observations (VEMag = visual equivalent magnitude) Date 10x10 mag Error VEmag Coma ' 09-Jan-24 17.6 0.4 23-Jan-24 17.1 0.4 27-Jan-24 16.9 0.4 30-Jan-24 16.8 0.4 05-Feb-24 16.6 0.4 11-Aug-24 15.7 0.4