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Comet PanSTARRS (C/2017T2 PanSTARRS)

This is a newly discovered comet on Oct 2, 2017 by PanSTARRS-1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii. The comet brightened up to about 8th magnitude in May 2020 under good condition.

Jun 9 2020 (with Arp299 galaxy), 84+75KB

Apr 25 2020, 127KB

Mar 20 2020, 142KB

Feb 23 2020 (with Double Cluster, IC1805 & IC1848), 120+683KB

Jan 31 2020 (with Double Cluster), 174+745KB

Comet Borisov (2I/ Borisov)

This is a newly discovered comet on Aug 30, 2019 by Gennady Borisov at an observatory in Crimea. It was firstly confirmed that the comet was an interstellar comet from out of solar system along a hyperbolic orbit with eccentricity of 3.3, resistered as the second interstellar object of "2I" after 1I/'Oumuamua discovered in 2017. The comet closed to the Earth with distance of about 2 au; we could observe with 15th magnitude in Dec 2019.

Early morning of Dec 28 2019, 140KB

Early morning of Nov 30 2019, 76KB

Early morning of Nov 10 2019, 76KB

Early morning of Nov 4 2019, 148KB

Early morning of Oct 10 2019, 90KB

Comet Africano (C/2018W2 Africano)

This is a newly discovered comet on Nov 27, 2018 by B.M.Africano with the Mt. Lemmon Survey, Arizona. The comet was observed with 8th magnitude in autumn of 2019.

Oct 26 2019, 75KB

Oct 4 2019, 58KB

Sep 27 2019, 80KB

Early morning of Aug 4 2019, 106KB

Comet Iwamoto (C/2018Y1 Iwamoto)

This is a newly discovered comet on Dec 18, 2018 by a Japanese comet seeker. The comet brightened up to 7th magnitude in Feb 2019 and observed under good conditions.

Mar 9 2019, 81KB

Mar 1 2019 (with IC405 & IC410), 90+138KB

Feb 23 2019, 89KB

Feb 16 2019, 72KB

Feb 1 & 2 2019, 105+86KB

Early morning of Dec 30 2018, 80KB

Comet Wirtanen (46P/ Wirtanen)

This comet is 5.4 year periodic one discovered in 1947. In December 2018, the comet has a great approach to the Earth in its 12th return, and we could appreciate the comet with a brightness of 3rd magnitude in maximum.

Feb 23 2019, 75KB

Feb 1 2019, 84KB

Jan 27 2019, 79KB

Dec 29 2018, 102+113KB

Spectrum on Dec 15 2018

Dec 14 & 15 2018, 69+121+165KB

Dec 8 2018, 70+85KB

Nov 10 2018, 62KB

Nov 3 2018, 39KB

Comet Stephan-Oterma (38P/ Stephan-Oterma)

This comet is one of long-periods with 38 years discovered in 1867. The comet could be observed in Jan 2019 with 9th to 10th magnitude.

Comet Swift-Gehrels (64P/ Swift-Gehrels)

This is a 9.41 year period comet discovered in 1889. The comet was observed with 10th to 11th magnitude in Nov to Dec 2018.

Feb 1 2019, 97KB

Jan 27 2019 (with the Pleiades), 95+165KB

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

This comet is short-period one with 6.54 years discovered in 1900. This is the 18th return since its discovery, the comet could be observed with a brightness of about 8th magnitude in August to September 2018 in higher northern skies.

Aug 16 & 17 2018 (with IC1805 & IC1848) , 77+133KB

Aug 9 2018 , 86KB

Comet PanSTARRS (C/2016R2 PanSTARRS)

This is a comet newly discovered by PanSTARRS-1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii on Sep 7, 2016. The comet moves in winter constellations in latter half of 2017, observed with 11th magnitude for a long period.

Dec 22 2017 , 67KB

Comet Tsuchinshan 1 (62P/ Tsuchinshan 1)

This is a 6.63 year periodic comet discovered at Tsuchinshan chinese national observatory in 1965. This is 8th return from its discovery, the comet was observed with 10th to 11th magnitude in east dawn skies.

Early morning of Dec 23 2017 , 49KB

Comet ASASSN (C/2017O1 ASASSN)

A newly discovered comet on Jul 19, 2017 at the Inter-American observatory in Chile operated by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) project of the Ohio state univ. The comet was observed with about 8th magnitude in Oct 2017.

Dec 22 2017 , 70KB

Nov 11 2017 , 75KB

Sep 30 2017 (Rendez-vous with California Nebula), 65+101KB

Comet Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (41P/ Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak)

This is a 5.42 years periodic comet discovered in 1858. It's well known as one of comets with frequent burst. In April 2017, the 29th return since its discovery, the comet was obseved with 5th magnitude in brightness.

Comet PanSTARRS (C/2015ER61 PanSTARRS)

This is a comet newly discovered by PanSTARRS-1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii on Mar 14, 2015. The comet had a burst in beginning of Apr 2017 and brightened to 6th magnitude.

Early morning of May 21 2017, 53KB

Early morning of Apr 29 2017, 65KB

Comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (45P/ Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova)

This is a comet with period of 5.25 years discovered by 3 seekers including a Japanese in 1948.
This approach was the 13th return since the discovery, the comet closed to the Earth in about 0.08 au in Feb 2017.

Mar 4 2017, 87KB

Feb 19 2017, 77KB

Early morning of Feb 5 2017, 107KB

Dec 30 2016, 56+65KB

Dec 24 2016, 67+95KB

Comet Johnson (C/2015V2 Johnson)

This is a newly discovered comet on Nov 3, 2015 by a member of the Catalina Sky Survey team of Mr. J.A. Johnson. The comet was brighten up about 7th magnitude in summer of 2017.

Early morning of Dec 24 2016, 67KB

Comet NEOWISE (C/2016U1 NEOWISE)

This is a newly discovered comet on Oct 21, 2016 by the NASA's WISE satellite of the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer project. We could observe the comet with 8th magnitude in maximum from end of 2016 to beginning of 2017 at northern hemisphere.

Early morning of Dec 31 2016, 89KB

Comet LINEAR (252P/ LINEAR)

This 5.3 years-periodic comet has been dicovered on Apr 7, 2000 by the automated survey of Lincoln Laboratory Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) team. In beginning of Mar 2016, the comet had a outburst and brightened from 14th to 10th magnitude in its 4th return, reached about 4th magnitude on Mar 21 at the closest approach to the Earth. In Apr 2016, we could observe a gigantic coma without tails.

May 1 2016, 84KB

Apr 9 2016, 89KB

Comet Catalina (C/2013UC10 Catalina)

This is a comet newly discovered by the automated sky survey of Alizona univ. on Oct 31, 2013. The comet brightened about 5th magnitude in Dec 2015 to spring of 2016.

Feb 11 2016, 84KB

Feb 7 2016, 113KB

Early morning of Jan 16&17 2016, 80+191+136KB

Spectrum on early morning of Jan 9 2016

Early morning of Jan 9 to 11 2016, 77+235+306KB

Early morning of Jan 4&5 2016, 63+142KB

Early morning of Dec 20 2015, 55+106KB

Early morning of Dec 13 2015, 84+85KB

Early morning of Dec 8 & 9 2015, 34+74+131KB

Early morning of Dec 5 & 6 2015, 159+97KB

Comet PanSTARRS (C/2013X1 PanSTARRS)

This is a comet newly discovered by PanSTARRS-1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii on Dec 4, 2013. The comet brightened about 5th to 6th magnitude in spring to summer of 2016.

Early morning of Jun 4 2016, 79+89KB

Early morning of May 8 2016, 73KB

Feb 11 2016, 78KB

Jan 3 & 9 2016, 170KB

Dec 30 2015, 70KB

Dec 5 2015, 80KB

Nov 15 2015, 64KB

Comet PanSTARRS (C/2014S2 PanSTARRS)

This is a comet newly discovered by PanSTARRS-1 telescope in Maui, Hawaii on Sep 22, 2014 with a brightness of about 20th magnitude. The comet brightened about 9th magnitude in end of 2015 to beginning of 2016.

May 5 2016, 73KB

Apr 9 2016, 75KB

Early morning of Jan 16 2016, 73KB

Comet Lovejoy (C/2014Q2 Lovejoy)

This is a comet newly discovered by an Australian comet seeker of Mr. Terry Lovejoy on Aug 17, 2014. The comet brightened about 5th magnitude in maximum in end of 2014 to the beginning of 2015.

Aug 15 2015, 87KB

Mar 14 2015, 77+114KB

Feb 14 2015, 85+150+160KB

Feb 11 2015, 84+145KB

Jan 24 2015, 73+190+103KB

Jan 23 2015, 75+142+136KB

Jan 17 2015, 70+113+156KB

Jan 11 2015, 79+81KB

Jan 10 2015, 74+91+146KB

Jan 9 2015, 75+100KB

Dec 29 2014, 63+88+93KB

Spectrum on Dec 29 2014, 19KB

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