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Comet Hartlay 2 (103P/ Hartlay 2)

It's a comet with period of 6.47 years discovered in 1986. This 4th return has fairly good observating condition, the comet was be a naked-eye comet with 5th magnitude or so in autumn of 2010.

Dec 9, 2010, 51KB

Nov 27, 2010, 69KB

Nov 5, 2010, 60+72+83KB

Oct 10, 2010, 66+56+62KB

Sep 18, 2010, 68KB

Sep 10, 2010, 57KB

Sep 4, 2010, 60KB

Comet Tempel 2 (10P/ Tempel 2)

A short periodic comet of 5.37 years discovered in 1873. This is 26th return after its discovery, observed with 8th magnitude in southeast skies in summer of 2010.

Comet McNaught (C/2009R1 McNaught)

This is a newly discovered comet on Sep 9, 2009 by Mr. R.H. McNaught in Siding Spring observatory, Australia. The comet started to be observed from May 2010 in eastern dusk skies, brightened about 5th magnitude in Jun 2010.

Early morning of Jun 17, 2010, 53KB

Early morning of Jun 12, 2010, 57KB

Early morning of Jun 6, 2010, 57+54KB

Early morning of Jun 1, 2010, 52+51KB

Early morning of May 22, 2010, 57KB

Early morning of May 18, 2010, 43KB

Early morning of May 9, 2010, 46KB

Comet McNaught (C/2009K5 McNaught)

This is a newly discovered comet on May 27, 2009 by Mr. R.H. McNaught in Siding Spring observatory, Australia. The comet started to be observed from Mar 2010 in eastern dusk skies with its brightness of about first magnitude brighter than the prediction, became about 8th magnitude or so in April.

Comet Wild 2 (81P/ Wild 2)

A 6.42 years periodic comet discovered in 1978. This is the 5th return of the comet, could be observed with 9 or 10th magnitude in southern skies before dawn in Jan to Mar 2010.
This comet is also known that a spacecraft of Stardust launched by NASA has visited, and succeeded to return a sample capsule of comet's dust for the first time.

Early morning of Jan 23, 2010, 53KB

Early morning of Jan 17, 2010, 44KB

Early morning of Jan 11, 2010, 48KB

Comet Siding Spring (C/2007Q3 Siding Spring)

Newly discovered comet on Aug 25, 2007 at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. The comet could be observed with 9th or 10th magnitude in brightness in end of 2009 to beginning of 2010.

Early morning of Jan 23, 2010, 48KB

Early morning of Jan 17, 2010, 41KB

Early morning of Jan 11, 2010, 55KB

Early morning of Dec 27, 2009, 50KB

Early morning of Dec 20, 2009, 37KB

Comet Christensen (C/2006W3 Christensen)

It's a newly discovered comet by Catalina Sky Survey on Nov 18, 2006. The comet was observed about 8th magnitude in summer of 2009.

Comet Itagaki (C/2009E1 Itagaki)

This comet was discovered by a Japanese seeker of Mr. Kouichi Itagaki on Mar 14, 2009. In March 2009, the comet can be observed in western dusk skies in March.

Mar 28, 2009, 52KB

Mar 20, 2009, 53KB

Comet Lulin (C/2007N3 Lulin)

A newly discovered comet on July 11, 2007. The comet could be observed with 5th magnitude in Feb 2009.

Apr 17, 2009, 57KB

Mar 28, 2009, 45KB

Mar 20, 2009, 49+71KB

Mar 14, 2009, 52+62KB

Mar 6, 2009, 35+66KB

Feb 21, 2009, 38+84+83KB

Early morning of Feb 7, 2009, 48+62KB

Early morning of Feb 1, 2009, 45+60KB

Early morning of Jan 25, 2009, 40KB

Early morning of Dec 29, 2008, 48KB

Comet Kushida (144P/ Kushida)

It's a 7.6 years periodic comet discovered by a Japanese comet seeker Mr. Yoshio Kushida in 1994.
This is the 3rd return of the comet from its discovery, and became brighter than its prediction, it will be about 8th magnitude in Jan & Feb 2009.

Comet Broughton (C/2006OF2 Broughton)

A newly discovered comet on July 17, 2006. The comet was observed with 10th magnitude in end of 2008 to beginning of 2009.

Comet Boattini (C/2007W1 Boattini)

It's a newly discovered by A. Boattini on Nov 20, 2007. The comet brightened up about 4th magnitude in end of June 2008.

Early morning of Aug 10, 2008, 63KB

Early morning of Aug 3, 2008, 66KB

Early morning of Jul 6, 2008, 60KB

May 3, 2008, 41KB

Apr 28, 2008, 50KB

Apr 4, 2008, 54KB

Comet Chen-Gao (C/2008C1 Chen-Gao)

It's a comet discovered by two Chinese amateur comet-seekers on Feb 1, 2008. The comet can be observed in Apr 2008 with 9th magnitude in maximum.

Apr 5, 2008, 50KB

Comet Wirtanen (46P/ Wirtanen)

It's a 5.4 years periodic comet discovered in 1948. The comet was observed in evening skies from Jan to Mar 2008 under good condition, brightened up to about 8th magnitude.

Comet Tuttle (8P/ Tuttle)

It's a 13.6 years periodic comet discovered in 1858. This time is the 11th return and it was observed with about 6th magnitude in brightness in Jan 2008.

Jan 26, 2008, 38KB

Jan 13, 2008, 55KB

Jan 4, 2008, 78KB

Dec 31, 2007, 75+83KB

Dec 14, 2007, 57KB

Dec 1, 2007, 62KB

Comet Holmes (17P/ Holmes)

It's a 6.88 years periodic comet discovered in 1892. On Oct 25, 2007, the comet had an extraordinary big outburst and brightened its magnitude from 17th to 2nd or so, became a naked eye comet suddenly. A round shaped coma was observed in northern autumnal night skies.

Change of comet Holmes

Apr 28, 2008, 79KB

Mar 8, 2008, 68+96KB

Mar 1, 2008, 65+65KB

Feb 10, 2008, 73+71KB

Feb 1, 2008, 72+89KB

Jan 26, 2008, 80+91KB

Jan 13, 2008, 76KB

Jan 5, 2008, 85KB

Dec 31, 2007, 78+90KB

Dec 13 till 15, 2007, 162+80KB

Dec 8, 2007, 69+158KB

Dec 1, 2007, 70+158KB

Early morning of Nov 23, 2007, 66+63+69KB

Nov 16 & 17, 2007, 57+117KB

Nov 14, 2007, 60+76+61KB

Nov 11, 2007, 47+121KB

Nov 7, 2007, 49+118KB

Evening of Nov 3 till early morning of Nov 4, 2007, 53+59+58+47KB

Early morning of Nov 3, 2007, 51+58KB

Oct 31, 2007, 56+36KB

Oct 29, 2007, 40KB

Oct 27, 2007, 37+39+32KB

Comet LONEOS (C/20067F1 LONEOS)

It's a newly discovered comet by Lowell Observatory searching team on Mar 19, 2007. The comet was observed in lower evening sky with a brightness of 6th magnitude in Oct 2007.

Oct 20, 2007, 44KB

Comet LINEAR (C/2006VZ13 LINEAR)

It's a newly discovered comet by LINEAR team on Nov 9, 2006. It was observed with 7th magnitude in maximum in July 2007.

Jul 15, 2007, 47KB

Jun 15, 2007, 78KB

Comet Machholtz 1 (96P/ Machholtz 1)

It's a 5.24 years periodic comet discovered in 1986, this is fourth return since its discovery. The comet grazed the sun in beginning of Apr 2007 and brighten up to about 1st magnitude. And its dimmed figure could be observed in lower dawn sky from end of the month.

May 11, 2007, 62KB

Apr 28, 2007, 63KB

Comet Lovejoy (C/2007E2 Lovejoy)

It's a newly discovered comet with 10th magnitude coma by an Australian observer Mr. Terry Lovejoy on Mar 15, 2007. The comet appeared in lower southeast skies from Apr 2007 at northern hemisphere, and the comet brightened about 8th magnitude in maximum.

May 26, 2007, 51KB

May 11, 2007, 52KB

Apr 28, 2007, 65KB

Early morning of Apr 15, 2007, 49KB

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