Characterising strong outbursts vs. weak outbursts of 29P / Seasonal changes
<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage MISSION 29P has now completed some 11.2 year’s coverage in which we have tried
Read more<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage MISSION 29P has now completed some 11.2 year’s coverage in which we have tried
Read moreAs I write this on January 14, the comet has survived perihelion and it has developed a spectacular tail which
Read moreThe 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the pre-eminent space observatory of our times, and just 7 months into
Read moreC/2024 G3 was discovered by the ATLAS survey on 2024 April 5 using a 0.5-m, f/2 Schmidt at Rio Hurtado,
Read moreThis joint Comet and Meteor Section meeting will take place in Edinburgh, a few minutes’ walk from Waverley Station on
Read moreUpdate 2024-10-01. The comet has been designated C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) on MPEC 2024-T22 and the section image gallery is here.
Read moreIt is always dangerous to count cometary chickens before they are hatched but it really does look as if we
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Read moreThe first director of the Comet Section, William Frederick Denning, discovered his fifth and final comet from Bristol on the
Read moreC/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was discovered at the start of 2023 when it was 7.5 au from the Sun. It has
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