Comet – British Astronomical Association

Comet and meteor section meeting

A date for your diary. I’ll post more details as they become available.

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

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was discovered at the start of 2023 when it was 7.5 au from the Sun. It has

Denis Buczynski (Tarbatness) and Mark Phillips (Edinburgh) report another small outburst of this comet. First detection was 2024 Feb 29.82.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks comes to perihelion this April. It has an orbital period of 71 years and a large nucleus which

BAA member Maxim Usatov has developed a remote observatory, called Alnitak, in southern Spain and he has generously offered the

This is a preliminary report on the latest outburst and a comparison with previous outbursts. It is subject to updates.