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Comet Garradd (C/2006L1 Garradd)

It's a newly discovered comet by the survey of Siding Spring Observatory in Australia on Jun 4, 2006. It's predicted that the comet will be observed with 9th or 10th magnitude from Oct to Dec of the year.

Nov 25, 2006, 44KB

Comet SWAN (C/2006M4 SWAN)

It's a new comet found in an observing device of the SOHO satellite on Jun20, 2006. The comet started to be observed in lower northwest evening skies from Oct 2006, and had a outbust on Oct 24, brighten up from 7th to 4th magnitude.

Nov 25, 2006, 78KB

Oct 28, 2006, 38KB

Comet Faye (4P/ Faye)

Comet Faye is a historical periodic comet discovered in 1843 return in every 7.55 years. This time is the 22nd return from its discovery. The comet brightened up about 8th magnitude in autumn and winter of 2006.

Comet Barnard 2 (177P/ Barnard 2)

It's a comet detected by LINEAR team on Jun 23, 2006. It becomes clear that the comet is the first return of the comet Barnard 2 discovered in 1889, and assigned the number of periodic comet. In Autumn of 2006, the comet was observed with a brightness of 8th magnitude, 4 or 5th magnitude brighter than that of the prediction.

Aug 19, 2006, 54KB

Aug 4, 2006, 56+53KB

Jul 29, 2006, 66KB

Comet Pojmanski (C/2006A1 Pojmanski)

A new comet discovered in flame of ASAS project of the Las Campanas observatory in Chile on Jan 1, 2006. The comet could be observed at Japan from end of Feb in lower southeast dawn skies, and has a 5th magnitude coma and a long ion tail in early of Mar.

Early morning of Apr 22, 2006, 87KB

Early morning of Apr 1, 2006, 65KB

Early morning of Mar 5, 2006, 77+70KB

Early morning of Mar 4, 2006, 75+67KB

Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3)

A small comet with a period of 5.3 years discovered in 1930. The coma divided in 1995, the comet has three major components of C(main coma), B and E. The comet was being a naked eye comet in May 2006 close to the Earth about 11 millions kilometers.

Sep 23, 2006, 60KB

Early morning of May 21, 2006, 77KB

May 3 & 4, 2006, 97+76+98KB

May 2, 2006, 94+95KB

Apr 27, 2006, 92+116+77KB

Apr 21, 2006, 87+78KB

Mar 31, 2006, 76KB

Mar 3, 2006, 63KB

Feb 4, 2006, 90KB

Comet McNaught (C/2005E2 McNaught)

A new comet discovered on Mar 12, 2005 by a comet seeker of Mr. R.H.McNaught at Australia. The comet was observed with a brightness of about 10th magnitude in Jan from Mar 2006.

Comet Giacobini-Zinner (21P/ Giacobini-Zinner)

One of short-period comet with 6.62 years discovered on 1900. This is 16th return since its discovery, the comet was observed with a brightness of about 10th magnitude in July 2005.

Early morning of May 21, 2005, 51KB

Comet Tempel 1 (9P/ Tempel1)

It's a typical short-periodic comet with its period of 5.5 years, brightened up to about 9th magnitude in July 2005. NASA launched a space craft of "Deep-impact" and hit a small impactor module against the necleus of comet successfully on July 4, 2005.

Jun 25, 2005, 58KB

Apr 29, 2005, 61KB

Apr 8, 2005, 40KB

Comet Machholz (C/2004Q2 Machholz)

It's a new comet found by Mr. D.E. Machholz in Eridanus on Aug 27, 2004. This comet was observed as a naked eye one around the end of 2004 to beginning of 2005.

May 7, 2005, 68KB

Apr 16, 2005, 79KB

Apr 8 & 9, 2005, 41+61KB

Mar 19, 2005, 84+71KB

Mar 12, 2005, 75KB

Mar 6, 2005, 78+58KB

Feb 26, 2005, 80+84KB

Feb 11, 2005, 80KB

Feb 5, 2005, 137+76KB

Jan 30, 2005 (with Double Clusters), 58+53KB

Jan 22, 2005 (with Mel. 20), 64+66KB

with Pleiades & California Nebula, 71KB

Movement for 3 days, 123KB

Rendez-vous with M45 (Jan 7 & 8, 2005), 78+79KB

Jan 9, 2005 (Change of ion tail), 151KB

Jan 7, 2005, 63+163KB

Jan 1, 2005, 109KB

Dec 30, 2004, 53+152KB

Dec 18, 2004, 77KB

Dec 17, 2004, 87+122KB

Dec 16, 2004, 91+119KB

Dec 10, 2004, 82+90KB

Dec 8, 2004, 89KB

Dec 6, 2004, 127KB

Nov 20, 2004, 46+68KB

Nov 12, 2004, 57KB

Nov 9, 2004, 40+60KB

Nov 6, 2004, 45KB

Oct 22 & 23, 2004, 50+51KB

Oct 16, 2004, 52KB

Comet 2003T4 LINEAR (C/2003T4 LINEAR)

This is a new comet discovered by Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) team on Oct 13, 2003. The comet is predicted to be 8th magnitude in spring 2005.

Early morning of Mar 20, 2005, 42KB

Feb 11, 2005, 54KB

Jan 7, 2005, 33KB

Dec 11, 2004, 37KB

Comet 2005A1 LINEAR (C/2005A1 LINEAR)

This is the first discovered comet in 2005 by Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) team on Jan 13, 2005. The comet is predicted to be 8th magnitude in spring 2005, but it cannot be observed at Japan on and after Feb 2005.

Jan 21, 2005, 54KB

Comet Tsuchinshan 1 (62P/Tsuchinshan1)

This is a 6.63 year periodic comet discovered at Tsuchinshan chinese national observatory in 1965. This is 6th return from its discovery, moved east from Cancer to Leo in Nov 2004 till Jan 2005, brighten about 11th magnitude in maximum.

Jan 21, 2005, 40KB

Jan 7, 2005, 40KB

Dec 22, 2004, 57KB

Comet Tucker (C/2004Q1 Tucker)

A new comet discovered by Mr. R.A.Tucker, Arizona, on Aug 23, 2004 in constellation of Cetus. The comet is moving northward in Autumnal skies of Oct to Nov 2004, having brightness of 10th mag. or so in maximum.

Comet Gehrels 2 (79P/Gehrels2)

It's a 7.2 years periodical comet found in 1973, this is 4th return from its discovery. The comet was observed with 11th magniude in Oct & Nov 2004.

Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann1)

A 14.7 years periodical comet discovered in 1927. Its orbit is almost round just outer of Jupiter, this return is five times from its discovery. And the comet is known that has frequent outbursts, observed with 11th mag., about 2nd mag. brighter than that of prediction in Oct 2004.

Oct 22, 2004, 64KB

Comet LINEAR (C/2003K4 LINEAR)

This is a new comet discovered in the constellation of Cygnus by Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) on May 28, 2003. The comet is observed in evening west sky in summer of 2004 with a brightness of 6th or 7th magnitude.

Comet SWAN (C/2004H6 SWAN)

It's a new comet found in a observing device of the SOHO satellite, the name of SWAN is that of the device. The comet was observed in Jun and Jul 2004 with a brightness of 7th magnitude.

Jul 23, 2004, 64KB

Comet NEAT (C/2001Q4 NEAT)

This is a comet discovered by NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroids Tracking program) team, in NASA, on Aug 24, 2001. The comet was positioned beyond the orbit of Saturn when discovered. It's the most distant record of comet's discovery. We can appreciate the comet with a splendid appearance in western evening sky in May 2004.

Oct 23, 2004, 49+64KB

Jul 23, 2004, 39KB

Jun 5, 2004, 73+74KB

May 21, 2004, 61+63KB

Comet NEAT setting to Mt. Fuji (May 14, 2004), 67KB

May 11, 2004, 78KB

Comet Bradfield (C/2004F4 Bradfield)

A new comet discovered by a famous Australian comet seeker Mr. W.A.Bradfield on Mar 23, 2004. He found the comet out in lower western sky in evening, and the comet passed the sun and moved to northeastern dawn sky in April. And in end of Apr 2004, we could appreciate it with a splendid tail over 10 degrees in length.

Early morning of May 15, 2004, 53KB

Early morning of Apr 30, 2004, 49KB

Early morning of Apr 29, 2004, 41+43KB

Comet LINEAR (C/2002T7 LINEAR)

This is a comet discovered by Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) on Oct 14, 2002. Now it's expected that this comet will be a great and bright one about 1st magnitude in spring of 2004.

Jun 5, 2004, 78KB

Early morning of Apr 29, 2004, 35+57KB

Early morning of Apr 25, 2004, 33KB

Comet Encke (2P/ Encke)

Comet Encke is one of periodic comets with the shortest period of only 3.3 years, and there are appearance records since 1786. In this return the comet traveled from Andromeda to Cygnus, we could observe with a brightness of 7th magnitude or so.

Evening on Nov 22, 2003, 54KB

Comet NEAT (C/2002V1 NEAT)

This is a new comet discovered by NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroids Tracking program) team, in NASA, on Nov 6, 2002. The comet has an orbit close to the sun about 0.1AU in Feb 2003, we could observe as a naked-eye comet from the end of Jan to Feb, 2003.

Evening on Feb 1, 2003, 53KB

Evening on Jan 25, 2003, 79KB

Comet Kudo-Fujikawa (C/2002X5 Kudo-Fujikawa)

It's a new comet discovered by two Japanese comet-seekers of Mr. Tetsuo Kudo in Kumamoto and Mr. Shigehisa Fujikawa in Kagawa on Dec 14 & 15, 2002. The comet traveled from Bootes to Serpens, and became a naked eye comet in January 2003.

On evening of Mar 9, 2003, 38KB

On early morning of Dec 29, 2002, 76KB

Comet Ikeya-Zhang (C/2002C1 Ikeya-Zhang)

It's a new comet discovered by two comet-seekers of Mr. Kaoru Ikeya in Shizuoka, Japan and Mr. Zhang in China on Feb 1, 2002. And Mr. Ikeya is well known as a discoverer of comet Ikeya-Seki, one of greatest comets in 20th century.
Comet Ikeya-Zhang was observed as a naked-eye comet in March and April, 2002. And it's pointed out that the comet may be recurrence of 17th century's comet observed in 1661.

On May 18, 2002, Consists of 3 images, total 152KB

Evening on May 2, 2002, 56KB

Early morning on Apr 29, 2002, 43KB

Early morning on Apr 14, 2002, Consists of 5 images, total 207KB

Evening on Mar 30, 2002, Consists of 4 images, total 113KB

Evening on Mar 16, 2002, Consists of 4 images, total 160KB

Evening on Mar 8 & 9, 2002, Consists of 3 images, total 115KB

Evening on Feb 23, 2002, f=1600mm, 27KB

Evening on Feb 10, 2002, f=1600mm, 52KB

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