Latest observations | ||||
Comet | Date | Observer | Mag | Type |
252P/LINEAR | 2016-04-08 04:59 | Goiato M. | 5.8 | VIS |
252P/LINEAR | 2016-04-08 00:22 | Morozov A. | 6.2 | VIS |
252P/LINEAR | 2016-04-08 00:10 | Morozov A. | 6.4 | VIS |
C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) | 2016-04-07 23:48 | Morozov A. | 9.6 | VIS |
C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) | 2016-04-07 18:30 | Sidorko D. | 10.1 | VIS |
252P/LINEAR | 2016-04-07 05:02 | Norman N. | 5.7 | VIS |
252P/LINEAR | 2016-04-07 04:59 | Goiato M. | 5.7 | VIS |
Bright comets now | |||||
Comet | Mag | Elong | DEC | RA | |
9P/Tempel | 8.3 | ↑ | 148.8 | +19°55' | 12h03m |
C/2014 S2 (PANSTARRS) | 9.9 | ↓ | 110.6 | +61°11' | 11h44m |
116P/Wild | 11.7 | ↑ | 132.1 | -22°59' | 16h03m |
C/2013 US10 (Catalina) | 11.9 | ↓ | 61.7 | +49°22' | 04h28m |
81P/Wild | 12.5 | ↑ | 75.6 | +22°38' | 06h06m |
C/2014 W2 (PANSTARRS) | 13.5 | ↓ | 78.1 | +68°19' | 20h08m |
252P/LINEAR | 14.1 | ↓ | 111.6 | -07°13' | 17h34m |
Bright comets in the sky
Comets discovered in January 2016 | CometWatch Ep011 – Cometbase | Comets 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. read more... |
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. read more... |
2.02.2016 | 5.02.2016 | 3.04.2016 |