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Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner will brighten through the summer

This comet was discovered by Giacobini in 1900 and recovered by Zinner in 1913 and it has an orbital period

Mike Hendrie, Director of the Comet Section from 1977 to 1987 died on Februrary 25 at the age of 87.

Comet prospects for 2025 From the Handbook: text table From the Journal: text table Comet prospects for 2024 From the

Around two weeks after the outburst of 174P noted here the coma continues to expand but the total magnitude remains

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

Updated: 2017-07-24 Between 1973 February and 1987 February the Comet Section produced 26 issues of a newsletter called Istimirant Stella.

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