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C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) – A bright Spring Comet?

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

Comet C/2020 A2 (Iwamoto)

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

Mystery comets

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

Follow a comet through the northern sky

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

Rosetta 67P observing campaign

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

Scanning old comet photos, films and plates

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

General observations

1974b (Bradfield) and other 1974.pdf 1948V1.pdf 1969g.pdf Visual observation report forms 000.pdf Visual observation report forms 001.pdf

Observations of 1P/Halley in 1986

Observations of Halley, Nos 1-3.pdf IHW Halley Bulletins 2 -12.pdf IHW Halley Bulletins 13 – 20.pdf

Section publications

Istimirant Stella No 1 – 10.pdf Istimirant Stella No 11 – 17.pdf Istimirant Stella No 18 – 26.pdf Newsletter 1989.pdf

Reggie Waterfield’s notebooks

Many thanks to Martin Mobberley for scanning these notebooks. The originals are held in the BAA’s central archive. Reggie1_Sept32_Sept55.pdf Reggie2_Sept55_Oct66.pdf