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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

The Comet Section archive

This page contains links to items which have been scanned from the Sections extensive paper archive. Section publications

C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS

C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) was discovered at 20th magnitude in 2017 September when it was it was 9.3 au from the

The Comet’s Tale issue 38

The latest issue of our section newsletter, “The Comet’s Tale”, is available for download from the BAA website: https://www.britastro.org/node/6812 Issue

Submitting drawings and images to the archive

The Comet Section image archive here is one of the largest archives of its type in the world. We welcome

C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) – A new comet for the new year

Update: 2019 January 8. The latest astrometry means that we can now be fairly confident about the path that this

Comet 46P/Wirtanen makes a close approach

Comet 46P was discovered in 1948 January by Carl Wirtanen using the 20-inch Carnegie Double Astrograph at Lick Observatory. This