Comet – Page 9 – British Astronomical Association

Martin Smith (Cardiff)

I am located about 2 km north of Cardiff city centre, on the northern edge of Heath Park. The house

While there are no particularly bright comets due in 2017 there are a few that might reach binocular or naked

Note that Martin wrote this for the (now defunct) 2017 Yearbook of Astronomy and he has generously agreed that it

My observing sites are Hamble, UK. New Mexico, USA, Siding Spring, AU and my specific comet observing interests eg visual,

At Observatory I work as a volunteer.My main job – Fellow of the Kiev National Botanical Garden. In the photo

I live about 20 miles south of downtown Denver, Colorado. I have the advantage of living on a hill at

We have received the very sad news of the death, at 79, of the Ukrainian cometary astronomer Klim Ivanovich Churyumov. Churyumov was,

My main instrument here is the 0.35-m C14, used at f/7.7 with the ST9XE CCD, plus various other smaller instruments.

My interest in observing comets began in 1974 when Patrick Moore appeared on TV informing me that there was going

On June 14 I was at the Royal Society in London for the first day of a series of meetings