Comet – British Astronomical Association

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) was discovered as an apparently asteroidal object on 2025 January 3.342 in images taken by David Fuls

<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage MISSION 29P has now completed some 11.2 year’s coverage in which we have tried

As I write this on January 14, the comet has survived perihelion and it has developed a spectacular tail which

The 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the pre-eminent space observatory of our times, and just 7 months into

C/2024 G3 was discovered by the ATLAS survey on 2024 April 5 using a 0.5-m, f/2 Schmidt at Rio Hurtado,

This joint Comet and Meteor Section meeting will take place in Edinburgh, a few minutes’ walk from Waverley Station on

Update 2024-10-01. The comet has been designated C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) on MPEC 2024-T22 and the section image gallery is here.

It is always dangerous to count cometary chickens before they are hatched but it really does look as if we

Full size.

The first director of the Comet Section, William Frederick Denning, discovered his fifth and final comet from Bristol on the