A potential naked eye comet for 2024 ?
A new comet, designated as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), was discovered by the ATLAS survey in Hawaii on February 22, 2023. The object was also independently […]
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Comet ASASSN1 – Circumpolar for Perihelion
Comet C/2017 O1 (ASASSN1) is now located between the constellations of Perseus and Auriga heading towards Camelopardalis (at the time of writing). This now places […]
New Comet ASAS-SN1 Discovered
Discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) on 19th July, 2017, Comet C/2017 O1 was shining at magnitude 15 in Cetus. The comet […]
Comet 73P caught breaking apart
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been caught breaking apart in to two pieces on its journey passing the Earth by astronomers at the Slooh observatory. On the […]
Comet 45p re-emerges from conjunction
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova re-emerges from conjunction this week climbing progressively out of twilight each morning as the icy rock heads in to the constellation of Aquila. With a visual […]
Comet 252P/Linear Close Approach to Earth
On March 21st, Comet 252p/Linear made a close approach to Earth at a distance of only 0.036AU (33.5 Million Miles). This makes it the 5th […]
Comet Catalina on the brink of naked eye…
Image by Ian Sharp. Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina has been steadily brightening as expected and is on the brink of naked eye visibility at magnitude […]
Here comes Comet Panstarrs
Comet C/2014 Q1 Panstarrs is slowly coming out of transit from the sun this month to grace the skies for Southern Hemisphere observers. Observations currently place […]