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Comphot comet photometry software

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

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

Born in the city of Valencia (Spain), in 1968. Specialist at Industrial Electronics. I am amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, specialized

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

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