Has comet 45P lost its tail?
With the re-emergence of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova from conjunction this month, it seems to have lost its mojo. With a visual brightness of magnitude 8, the comet is dimmer than […]
Comets
Comet 45p re-emerges from conjunction
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova re-emerges from conjunction this week climbing progressively out of twilight each morning as the icy rock heads in to the constellation of Aquila. With a visual […]
Two Comets Meet in 2017
In the Spring of 2017, two reasonably bright comets are gracing our skies as they carry out their separate journeys through the solar system. Although the […]
Bright Comets of 2017
With the exception of US10 Catalina at the beginning of the year, 2016 was a bit of a damp squib for bright comets when compared […]
Comet 252P/Linear Double Flyby
After Comet 252P Linear’s Closest approach on Monday, its much fainter companion is making an even closer encounter with Earth on Tuesday 22nd. Discovered much more recently than its bigger brother, 2016 BA14 will flyby at a distance of just 9 lunar distances, or 2.1 million miles. This makes it the second closest approach of any comet in history (the last being this close was way back in 1770). [Read more…]
Comet 252P/Linear Close Approach to Earth
On March 21st, Comet 252p/Linear made a close approach to Earth at a distance of only 0.036AU (33.5 Million Miles). This makes it the 5th […]
Comet C/2015 T5 (Sheppard-Tholen) Discovered
On 15th November, D. J. Tholen, University of Hawaii, reported the discovery of an unknown comet in three images taken with the 8.2-m Subaru telescope […]
Comet Catalina on the brink of naked eye…
Image by Ian Sharp. Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina has been steadily brightening as expected and is on the brink of naked eye visibility at magnitude […]
Here comes Comet Panstarrs
Comet C/2014 Q1 Panstarrs is slowly coming out of transit from the sun this month to grace the skies for Southern Hemisphere observers. Observations currently place […]
Comet Tenagra in Outburst
Discovered in February 2013, a distant Comet has been observed brightening significantly throughout the last few months. Comet Tenagra (2013 C2) should normally be around […]