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C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)

Updated with a new chart for August here: 2020f3_Aug.pdf. We now have some very impressive images of C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) in

Letters from Alan McClure

The Comet Section runs an email discussion list and you are welcome to join whether or not you are a

As I said in my recent BAA webinar comets are unreliable things. Recent astrometry shows significant residuals in RA indicating

It is never a good idea to predict anything other than the orbital motion of a comet so please take

CBET 4714 announces the discovery of a new comet by Masayuki Iwamoto, Awa, Tokushima-ken, Japan, on two CCD frames taken

As a bit of a brain-teaser here are few comet-related mystery images to clear out the cobwebs after an excess

A relatively bright, circumpolar comet Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) was discovered by the PanSTARRS telescope on Haleakala, Hawai when it

As part of her PhD at the Open University, Helen Usher has asked if comet observers could fill in a

The Comet Section physical archive contains a very large number of photographic prints and slides dating back to the 1950s,