* * * * * COMET OBSERVATIONS * * * * *
Here you find visual observations of comets (and some other minor bodies of special interest)
that are currently under observation by contributors to our homepage, or have been observed in the
past, since July 2000.
Currently observable comets:
2P/Encke
10P/Tempel 2
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1
65P/Gunn
81P/Wild 2
103P/Hartley 2
C/2006 W3 (Christensen)
C/2009 K5 (McNaught)
C/2009 P1 (Garradd)
C/2009 R1 (McNaught)
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The following comets have been observed since July 2000, but not in the last two months:
4P/Faye
6P/d'Arrest
7P/Pons-Winnecke
8P/Tuttle
9P/Tempel 1
17P/Holmes
19P/Borrelly
21P/Giacobini-Zinner
22P/Kopff
24P/Schaumasse
26P/Grigg-Skjellerup
30P/Reinmuth 1
32P/Comas Solá
33P/Daniel
37P/Forbes
41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
43P/Wolf-Harrington
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova
46P/Wirtanen
49P/Arend-Rigaux
50P/Arend
51P/Harrington
53P/van Biesbroeck
57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte
61P/Shajn-Schaldach
62P/Tsuchinshan 1
64P/Swift-Gehrels
66P/du Toit
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
71P/Clark
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_B
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_C
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_G
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_R
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_Z
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_AD
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_AF
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_AP
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_AS
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_AT
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_BC
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3_BI
74P/Smirnova-Chernykh
77P/Longmore
78P/Gehrels 2
84P/Giclas
88P/Howell
92P/Sanguin
93P/Lovas 1
96P/Machholz 1
101P/Chernykh
110P/Hartley 3
116P/Wild 4
117P/Helin-Roman-Alu 1
118P/Shoemaker-Levy 4
123P/West-Hartley
141P/Machholz 2-A
144P/Kushida
153P/Ikeya-Zhang
154P/Brewington
155P/Shoemaker 3
157P/Tritton
161P/Hartley-IRAS
162P/Siding Spring
169P/NEAT
174P/Echeclus
177P/Barnard 2
185P/Petriew
188P/LINEAR-Mueller
191P/McNaught
192P/Shoemaker-Levy 1
205P/Giacobini
209P/LINEAR
210P/Christensen
217P/LINEAR
222P/LINEAR
C/1997 BA6 (Spacewatch)
C/1999 F1 (Catalina)
C/1999 J2 (Skiff)
C/1999 K5 (LINEAR)
C/1999 K8 (LINEAR)
C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley)
C/1999 T2 (LINEAR)
C/1999 U4 (Catalina-Skiff)
C/1999 Y1 (LINEAR)
C/2000 CT54 (LINEAR)
C/2000 K2 (LINEAR)
C/2000 OF8 (Spacewatch)
C/2000 SV74 (LINEAR)
C/2000 W1 (Utsunomiya-Jones)
C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)
C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)
C/2001 HT50 (LINEAR-NEAT)
C/2001 K3 (Skiff)
C/2001 K5 (LINEAR)
C/2001 N2 (LINEAR)
P/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)
C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
P/2001 Q6 (NEAT)
C/2001 RX14 (LINEAR)
P/2001 TU80 (LINEAR-NEAT)
C/2001 X1 (LINEAR)
P/2001 W2 (BATTERS)
P/2002 CE10 (LINEAR)
C/2002 E2 (Snyder-Murakami)
C/2002 F1 (Utsunomiya)
C/2002 H2 (LINEAR)
C/2002 J4 (NEAT)
C/2002 O4 (Hönig)
C/2002 O6 (SWAN)
C/2002 O7 (LINEAR)
C/2002 Q2 (LINEAR)
C/2002 Q5 (LINEAR)
P/2002 T1 (LINEAR)
C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
C/2002 U2 (LINEAR)
C/2002 V1 (NEAT)
C/2002 X1 (LINEAR)
C/2002 X5 (Kudo-Fujikawa)
C/2002 Y1 (Juels-Holvorcem)
C/2003 H1 (LINEAR)
C/2003 K4 (LINEAR)
C/2003 T2 (LINEAR)
C/2003 T3 (Tabur)
C/2003 T4 (LINEAR)
C/2003 WT42 (LINEAR)
C/2004 B1 (LINEAR)
C/2004 F4 (Bradfield)
C/2004 H6 (SWAN)
C/2004 K1 (Catalina)
C/2004 Q1 (Tucker)
C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)
C/2004 R2 (ASAS)
C/2004 RG113 (LINEAR)
C/2004 S1 (Van Ness)
P/2004 T1 (LINEAR-NEAT)
C/2004 U1 (LINEAR)
C/2004 V13 (SWAN)
P/2004 VR8 (LONEOS)
C/2005 A1 (LINEAR)
C/2005 E2 (McNaught)
P/2005 JQ5 (Catalina)
C/2005 K1 (Skiff)
C/2005 K2 (LINEAR)
P/2005 K3 (McNaught)
C/2005 L3 (McNaught)
C/2005 N1 (Juels-Holvorcem)
C/2005 P3 (SWAN)
P/2005 R2 (Van Ness)
P/2005 T4 (SWAN)
P/2005 XA54 (LONEOS-Hill)
C/2005 YW (LINEAR)
C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski)
P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring)
C/2006 L1 (Garradd)
C/2006 L2 (McNaught)
C/2006 M4 (SWAN)
C/2006 OF2 (Broughton)
C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
C/2006 Q1 (McNaught)
C/2006 S5 (Hill)
P/2006 T1 (Levy)
C/2006 U6 (Spacewatch)
C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
C/2006 WD4 (Lemmon)
C/2006 XA1 (LINEAR)
C/2007 B2 (Skiff)
C/2007 E1 (Garradd)
C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy)
C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)
C/2007 G1 (LINEAR)
P/2007 H1 (McNaught)
C/2007 K5 (Lovejoy)
C/2007 N3 (Lulin)
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring)
C/2007 T1 (McNaught)
C/2007 U1 (LINEAR)
C/2007 W1 (Boattini)
C/2008 A1 (McNaught)
C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao)
C/2008 FK75 (Lemmon-Siding Spring)
C/2008 J1 (Boattini)
P/2008 J2 (Beshore)
C/2008 J4 (McNaught)
P/2008 L2 (Hill)
C/2008 P1 (Garradd)
P/2008 Q2 (Ory)
C/2008 Q3 (Garradd)
C/2008 T2 (Cardinal)
C/2009 E1 (Itagaki)
C/2009 F5 (McNaught)
C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN)
C/2009 G1 (STEREO)
C/2009 K4 (Gibbs)
P/2009 L2 (Yang-Gao)
C/2009 O2 (Catalina)
C/2009 O4 (Hill)
P/2009 Q4 (Boattini)
P/2009 Q5 (McNaught)
P/2009 T2 (La Sagra)
C/2009 U3 (Hill)
P/2010 A3 (Hill)
P/2010 A5 (LINEAR)
C/2010 F4 (Machholz)
C/2010 G1 (Boattini)
P/2010 H2 (Vales)
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