Comet Section of Germany

Welcome to the VdS-Fachgruppe Kometen (Comet Section of Germany)!

Articles, Ressources (changed: Archive)	2010 August 24	Observations of recent comets	2010 August 31
Latest News	2010 September 1	Images	2010 September 1
Links	2010 August 28	Sketches	2010 June 29

Current Comets: 2010 August 27

Comet    Obs. Brightness Constell. Trend Analysis Images Remarks More
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10P/Tempel 8.5 Cet steady   x    X
C/2009 K5 (McNaught) 10.5 Lyn fading   x X
81P/Wild 12 Lib fading X
103P/Hartley 12.5 Aqr Brighter X x x

southern sky
C/2009 R1 (McNaught) 6 Hya fading X
2P/Encke 9 Vir fading
65P/Gunn 12 Mic fading X
C/2006 W3 (Christensen) 13 Ara fading x

Update every 2 weeks, quicker in case of events

The web page Winnie's Kometenseiten (in german) contains finding charts for comets brighter than 10^m.
Seiichi Yoshida gives at his web page conjunctions between comets and deep sky objects an comets among themselves.
The pages of the Astrosite Groningen contain charts with comparision stars for brighter comets (comets-charts)

Observation reports should be sent to Uwe Pilz (piu58gmx.de ) and Andreas Kammerer. Please follow the guidelines "Submitting Comet Observations"!
Sketches should be sent to Uwe Pilz ( piu58gmx.de )
Images should be sent to Stefan Beck ( stefan_beckcometchaser.de ).

Articles, Ressources, Images

Comet Section of Germany

Introducing the VdS-Fachgruppe Kometen - the Comet Section of Germany (2009 February 5)
List of members (2010 May 3)
Schweifstern The Journal of the German Comet Section (2010 June 30)
Publications of the German Comet Section (2010 March 26)
Dates and Events (2010 January 10)

Current Comets: Observation and Analysis

Tables and Diagrams for all currently observable comets brighter than 14 mag: ephemeris, orbital elements, visibility diagrams, comparison star charts (2010 June 30)
Software ICQ_Format.exe for formatting observation results (2009 February 3)
Analysis of currently observed comets (2010 June 30)
Submitting Comet Observations: Guidelines and ICQ-codes (2008 February 8)
Some Remarks on the Use of HIPPARCOS/TYCHO-Magnitudes

Articles

Visual like m1 values from multiaperture CCD photometry (2010, March 18)
Gas production and chemical composition of selected comets (2009 December 20)
The search for the "lost" comet P/Pons-Gambart (1997 August 6)
Awating Comet P/Pons-Gambart (2001 May 13)
The tail of Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)

Else

Archive: Observations, Images. (2010 August 24)
A selection of beautiful images of the FG Kometen archive (2009 November 24)
Past Comets: Light Curves, Observations and other Information (2010 June 20)

You are welcome to send your hints and suggestions to Uwe Pilz (piu58gmx.de)

Zugriffe seit dem 02. November 1996.