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Outburst of Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks – Preliminary report

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

This recently discovered comet, announced on CBET 5228, may become a bright object in October next year but it is

<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage 2025-26 apparition ‒ current lightcurve: Format: Date, RA, Dec, Magnitude, Observatory Code, Photometric aperture

Finder charts for 2023 January Finder charts for 2023 February Ephemeris The comet was a naked eye object near

This comet is on track to become a naked-eye object from dark sites at the end of January but it

<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage Introduction The mega-outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes on 2007 October 24 could be considered to

After a long break we are planning a Comet Section Meeting for the summer of 2023. The venue will be