Mount Lemmon Survey is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. Distance from rotation axis and height above equatorial plane (in Earth radii): 0.8451 +0.5336. Longitude (degrees East): 249.2083. The survey is conducted using a 1.5 meter (60 inch) f/2 telescope and is currently the most prolific telescope in the world discovering Near-Earth Objects
The survey accidentally rediscovered 206P/Barnard-Boattini, a lost comet, on October 7, 2008, by Andrea Boattini.[1] The comet has made 20 revolutions since 1892 and passed within 0.3 - 0.4 AU from Jupiter in 1922, 1934 and 2005.[2][3] This comet was also the first comet to be discovered by photographic means, by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard did so on the night of October 13, 1892. [1]