New Comet ASAS-SN1 Discovered
Discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) on 19th July, 2017, Comet C/2017 O1 was shining at magnitude 15 in Cetus. The comet […]
Comets
Catch Comet Johnson while you can
Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson is visible throughout May as it moves from Hercules in to Bootes all the time picking up relative speed across the night sky. […]
Comet C/2015 ER61 PanSTARRS in Outburst
Comet PanSTARRS (C/2015 ER61) has just outburst from magnitude 7.4 to 6.5 (estimated) over the night of 04-05 April. This takes the comet within easy range of standard […]
Comet Lovejoy brightens considerably
Well we did say that Terry Lovejoy’s comets are always ones to watch out for and we weren’t wrong. Comet C/2017 E4 Lovejoy discovered earlier in the […]
Comet 41P/Tuttle passes the Owl Nebula
On Tuesday 21 March, Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak passed close to the Owl Nebula (M97) and the Surfboard Galaxy (M108). The above image taken by Lee Phillips shows […]
Terry Lovejoy discovers comet C/2017 E4
On March 09, Terry Lovejoy, an amateur astronomer from Thornlands, Queensland Australia discovered a new comet with his Celestron C14 telescope and QHY9 CCD camera. This […]
Comet 41P and NGC 3198
This spectacular image of Comet 41P passing by spiral galaxy NGC 3198 was taken by Chris Schur, Payson, AZ on 14 March, 2017. This close […]
Comet 41P ready and well placed
Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak now resides in the constellation of Leo already 30 degrees above the horizon shortly after sunset. Brightening rapidly and already about to pass […]
Comet 45p heads in to Canes Venatici
View the full res version here On 19 February, comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova passed within close visual proximity to NGC 4631, the whale galaxy and NGC 4656, […]
Comet 73P caught breaking apart
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been caught breaking apart in to two pieces on its journey passing the Earth by astronomers at the Slooh observatory. On the […]