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174P Echeclus in outburst

For an update on this outburst see here. The unusual Centaur comet 174P Echeclus is currently undergoing one of its

As the nights draw in for northern hemisphere observers there are two interesting comets which will be well placed for

Comphot is a program to extract total comet magnitudes from FITS files which have been photometrically reduced to determine the

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Comets are wonderfully unpredictable objects. This is what makes them so much fun to observe. You never quite know what

After putting on a good display high in the sky for UK observers 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak and C/2015 V2 (Johnson) are now

In addition to the two comets metioned in the observing challenge we have a third interesting object in the morning

If we are lucky there will be two comets in binocular range high in the UK sky in mid-April. Comet

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Three comets are likely to be a good prospects for observers in the UK over the next few months. They