C/2007 W1

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Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini), discovered November 28, 2007 by Andrea Boattini (Mt Lemmon Survey), is as of mid May 2008 at about magnitude +6, potentially visible to the naked eye in the early evening sky in the constellation Pyxis. It will be lost in sunglow through June but reappears as a morning object in July at a predicted peak of +4. Perigee will be 24 June 2008.