Latest observations

CometDateObserverMagType
252P/LINEAR 2016-04-08 04:59Goiato M.5.8VIS
252P/LINEAR 2016-04-08 00:22Morozov A.6.2VIS
252P/LINEAR 2016-04-08 00:10Morozov A.6.4VIS
C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) 2016-04-07 23:48Morozov A.9.6VIS
C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) 2016-04-07 18:30Sidorko D.10.1VIS
252P/LINEAR 2016-04-07 05:02Norman N.5.7VIS
252P/LINEAR 2016-04-07 04:59Goiato M.5.7VIS

Bright comets now

CometMagElongDECRA
9P/Tempel 8.3148.8+19°55'12h03m
C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) 9.9110.6+61°11'11h44m
116P/Wild 11.7132.1-22°59'16h03m
C/2013 US10 (Catalina) 11.961.7+49°22'04h28m
81P/Wild 12.575.6+22°38'06h06m
C/2014 W2 (PANSTARRS) 13.578.1+68°19'20h08m
252P/LINEAR 14.1111.6-07°13'17h34m

Bright comets in the sky

Comets discovered in January 2016CometWatch Ep011 – CometbaseComets discovered between February and March 2016
In January were discovered 8 comets, 5 from PANSTARRS survey, 1 from Mt. Lemmon survey by E. Christensen, 1 from LINEAR and 1 from NEOWISE
Here the comets discovered list:
 
C/2016A1 (PANSTARRS)
P/2016A2 (Christensen)
P/2016A3 (PANSTARRS)
C/2016A5 (PANSTARRS)
C/2016A6 (PANSTARRS)
P/2016A7 (PANSTARRS)
C/2016A8 (LINEAR)
C/2016B1 (NEOWISE)
 
Giuseppe Pappa

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On the 31st of January two members of CometBase, Kirill Grishin & Taras Pristavskiy, team were interviewed by Neil Norman, Mary Spicer & Nick Evetts.
The great diversity of topics connected with CometBase was touched, not only results of previous year, also plans for future were discussed.

 


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In the last two months were discovered a poor number of comet and all from professional survey. One, P/2016BA14 was discovered on January but cometary nature was confirmed on February. 
On February were discovered C/2016C1 PANSTARRS and C/2016C2 NEOWISE while on March were discovered comets 2016 E1 PANSTARRS and 2016 E2 Kowalski.


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