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12P/Pons-Brooks observing campaign

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.

Disconnection events The ion tail of a comet is driven away from the coma by the solar wind which flows

Richard Miles on behalf of the Comet Chasers team run by Helen Usher reports another major outburst of this unusual

A lot of items have been appearing in the media about this comet. As with most comets that come to

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is a Halley-type comet with a period of 71 years which returns to perihelion next April. On its

103P/Hartley is a Jupiter family periodic comet which was discovered on 1986 March 15.59 by Malcolm Hartley using the 1.2-m

The Comet Section’s annual journal has just been published online. Comet’s Tale 42 can be found here. It contains 60

There aren’t any bright comets around at the moment and the skies don’t really get dark at UK latitudes at