My Astrophotography
Comets

Comet photo can be from wide field to high magnification photos. The comets are in orbits around our Sun and every year there are some new ones which come close to the Sun. The brighter ones can have a tail of 10 to 30 degrees, it's very very exiting to look at.

More to read about comets at Wikipedia:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Comet

Even if the comets looks to be very far away it happens they come close and even hit the Earth. Ask the dinosaurs how fun that is.

Bright comets to watch for in the future:

March, 2026 Astronomy

In April the comet C/2026 A1 MAPS will be at its brightest, maybe magnitude 0 .

• http://www.aerith.net/ ...
  (C/2026 A1/MAPS, Seiichi Yoshida)

February, 2026 Astronomy

A new comet discovered. In April the comet C/2026 A1 Kreutz will be at its brightest, very bright maybe.

• http://www.arxiv.org/ ... pdf
  (Bright sungrazing comet, Zdenek Sekanina)

February, 2026 Astronomy

Long time to next bright comet, in late Janary 2027 the Comet Encke with expected magnitude of 6 will come.

• http://www.aerith.net/ ...
  (2P/Encke (2027), Seiichi Yoshida)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...
  (Comet Encke, Wikipedia)

May, 2025 Astronomy

Not many bright comets the coming year. Comet C/2024 E1 Wierzchos maybe can reach magnitude 5 in January 2026. Not very bright but more than the others.

• http://www.aerith.net/ ...
  (C/2024 E1 Wierzchos, Seiichi Yoshida)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...
  (C/2024 E1 Wierzchos, Wikipedia)

My Comets:

Discoverer of comets:

The most famous person is of course Edmond Halley, he who found that comet has orbits around the Sun. Here is a list of the persons of the discoverer of the comets I have taken photographs of:

• WikipediaGregory J. Leonard
• WikipediaRichard Martin West
• WikipediaMalcolm Hartley
• WikipediaHorace Parnell Tuttle
• WikipediaMichel Giacobini
• WikipediaĽubor Kresák
• WikipediaTerry Lovejoy
• WikipediaCristóvão Jacques, Eduardo Pimentel, João Ribeiro de Barros, Marcelo Dias
• WikipediaMasayuki Iwamoto
• WikipediaVitaly Nevsky, Artyom Novichonok
• WikipediaKaoru Ikeya
• WikipediaShigeki Murakami
• WikipediaYuji Hyakutake
• WikipediaAlan Hale
• WikipediaThomas Bopp
• WikipediaAndrea Boattini
• WikipediaMalcolm Hartley

Robot telescopes:

The last 15 years most new comets are discovered by robot telescopes. Telescopes that search for Super Novae or Asteroids, but as a bonus they also find new Comets.

Some common robot telescopes:

• WikipediaASASSN, All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae
• WikipediaATLAS, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
• WikipediaCSS, Catalina Sky Survey
• WikipediaISON, International Scientific Optical Network
• WikipediaLINEAR, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
• WikipediaNEOWISE, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
• WikipediaPan-STARRS
• WikipediaZTF, Zwicky Transient Facility

Comments:

If I had taken those photographs today (2025) I would use the following of my equipment.

Sometime I take time lapse of comets, it's very interesting to see how they move between the stars. Some examples of astro time lapse videos: Comet gallery, 1996 to 2023.

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