› Forums › Comets › Outburst of faint periodic comet 285P/LINEAR › Reply To: Outburst of faint periodic comet 285P/LINEAR
14 August 2022 at 8:59 am
#611949
![](https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/picture-14-1555163046-80x80.jpg)
Participant
This comet continues to fade and become more diffuse following its outburst on Aug 1. Thank you to all of you who have sent in observations. Please keep observing this object as it expands and fades.
The remarkable weather in SE England means that I have managed to image it every night since the outburst was announced on August 6. My lightcurve and a rather jerky GIF showing the development is attached to this post. The comet has now faded to around 15.7. Still a long way to get back to its ephemeris magnitude of 19.5.