Confirmations for August 2021

Dear All,

Soho#  Date/Time of Post  Discoverer     Tel     Group   Images of...
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4244  Jul19,21 11:59:06   R.Biros        C2      Kreutz  Apr19,01
4245  May16,21 05:41:50   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Jan13,04
4246  Jul13,21 06:29:35   R.Biros        C2      Kreutz  May23,06
4247  Jul02,21 23:57:39   T.Prestgard    C2      Kreutz  Jul02,06
4248  Jul04,21 12:41:50   R.Pickard      C2      Kreutz  May23,07
4249  Jul05,21 21:01:31   R.Pickard      C2      Kreutz  Oct24,07
4250  Dec06,07 10:02:56   S.Yuan         C2      Kreutz  Dec06,07
4251  Aug20,21 09:14:29   P.Berrett      C2      Marsden Mar16,11
4252  Aug05,21 09:55:00   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Jul01,12
4253  Jul25,21 05:01:55   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Mar14,14
4254  Jul28,21 02:17:35   R.Pickard      C2      Kreutz  May20,16
4255  Aug25,21 09:59:49   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Sep14,16
4256  Aug29,21 09:26:39   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Dec04,17
4257  May02,18 06:40:22   W.Boonplod     C2      Kreutz  May02,18
4258  Jul23,21 15:12:40   R.Pickard      C2      Kreutz  May07-08,18
4259  Jul19,21 02:02:17   R.Pickard      C2      Kreutz  May08,18
4260  May10,18 17:32:07   W.Boonplod   C3,C2     Kreutz  May10,18
4261  Aug27,21 05:18:18   R.Pickard      C2      Kreutz  May13,18
4262  Jul25,21 08:49:54   R.Biros        C2      Kreutz  Oct03,19
4263  Aug29,21 10:53:11   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Dec23,17
4264  Aug07,21 22:38:41   W.Boonplod     C3      Kreutz  Aug07-08,21
4265  Aug09,21 01:37:56   W.Boonplod   C3,C2     Kreutz  Aug08-10,21
4266  Aug11,21 04:22:32   T.Prestgard    C2      Meyer   Aug11,21
4267  Aug13,21 23:17:46   W.Boonplod     C3      Kreutz  Aug14,21
4268  Aug14,21 00:10:43   P.Berrett      C2      NonGrp  Aug03,21
4269  Aug22,21 07:02:34   P.Sun        H1,C3     Kreutz  Aug21-22,21
4270  Aug24,21 16:14:54   M.Uchina       C3      Kreutz  Aug24,21
4271  Aug26,21 16:38:08   M.Uchina       C3      Kreutz  Aug26,21
4272  Aug27,21 03:52:52   Boonplod,Sun H1,C3,C2  Kreutz  Aug26-28,21

This set contains a couple of correction to the archive claims. First, SOHO-4256 had already been confirmed as SOHO-3488 -- many thanks to Simone Renai for pointing that out to me. Luckily, Peter made a couple of more non-group reports, one of which fit perfectly into the vacant position, and the other becoming SOHO-4263, so I have added these to the list. I believe these discoveries take Peter past 50 comets - many congratulations, Peter!

Second correction is that SOHO-4251 was more likely a Marsden-group than a Meyer group comet.

As discussed on the groups.io page, the Kreutz stream has made its way back in to the STEREO/HI-1 field of view again. Right now only the brightest Kreutz will show up in HI1, but by mid-to-late September I would expect HI-1 to see almost every Kreutz that we discover in SOHO. Once we get into mid-November, we will go back to only seeing the brighter Kreutz, and then probably by mid-December the Kreutz trail will leave the field of view again until summer 2021.

Best wishes, Karl

EDIT: SOHO-4272 was a joint-discovery between Worachate and Peiyuan.