Comet – British Astronomical Association

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) survives perihelion

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,

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.