12P/Pons-Brooks small outburst 2024 Feb 29

Denis Buczynski (Tarbatness) and Mark Phillips (Edinburgh) report another small outburst of this comet. First detection was 2024 Feb 29.82. Last data pre-outburst is by Eliot Herman on Feb 29.11. Magnitude change in 9 arcsec aperture: 10.3 to 9.6.

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Lightcurve from 2023 May – 2023 November.

Lightcurve from 2023 November – 2024 March.

Lightcurve from 2024 March – 2024 June.

 

 

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