This is a list of some of the more memorable observations I have made in my years as an astronomer.
Dates in parentheses are when observed (if known exactly).
C/1975 V1 West (1976) |
D/1993 F2 Shoemaker-Levy 9 (7/1994) |
C/2004 F4 Bradfield (04/30/04) |
IRAS-Aracki-Alcock (5/1983) |
141P/Machholz 2 (1994) |
C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) (05/15/04) |
1/P Halley (10/17/85) |
C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp (8/1995) |
C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) (06/20/04) |
21P/Giacobini-Zinner (1985) |
C/1996 B2 Hyakutake (03/25/96) /div> |
C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) (12/31/04) |
Hartley-Good (10/11/95) |
C/1996 Q1 Tabur |
C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski) (02/26/06) |
Bradfield 1987s (1987) |
81P/Wild 2 (1997) |
73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (04/08/06) |
Austin (198?) |
55P/Tempel-Tuttle (1998) |
177P/Barnard (08/19/06) |
Borelly (1988) |
103P/Hartley 2 (1998) |
C/2006 M4 (SWAN) (10/15/06) |
Liller (1988) |
1998 U5 (LINEAR) |
C/2007 E1 (Garradd) (05/12/07) |
Okazaho-Levy-Rudenko (9/1989) |
1999 S4 (LINEAR) |
C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) (05/12/07 |
Brorsen-Metcalf (7/1989) |
C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) |
C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR) (07/07/07) |
Yanaka 1989a (5/3/89) |
2001 A2 (LINEAR) (08/08/01) |
17P/Holmes (10/24/07) |
Austin (1990) |
C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang |
C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao) (04/2008) |
Cernis-Kiuchi-Nakamura (3/27/90) |
C/2002 O4 Hoenig |
C/2007 W1 (Boattini) (04/2008) |
Levy (1990) |
96P/Machholz 1 |
C/2007 N3 (Lulin) (02/25/2009) |
P/Wirtanen (1991) |
C/2002 V1 NEAT (01/29/03) |
144P/Kushida (03/14/2009) |
4P/Fay (10/1991) |
C/2001 HT50 LINEAR (01/29/03) |
C/2008 T2 (Cardinal) (03/14/2009) |
109P/Swift-Tuttle (1992) |
C/2002 Y1 (Juels-Holvorcem) (02/26/03) |
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Shoemaker-Levy 8 (06/22/92) |
C/2001 RX14 (LINEAR) (02/26/03) |
Comet 17P/Holmes is the 50th comet I have observed in my long career as an astronomer.