Comet – British Astronomical Association

C/2026 A1 (MAPS) – A Kreutz group sungrazer

Predictions for this comet are starting to appear in the main-stream media so I thought that it would be a

Unusually, there are two bright comets visible in the evening sky at the moment. One of them, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)

The Comet and Meteor sections held a highly successful meeting in Edinburgh on 2025 October 4. My thanks to the

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 11.3 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.