Comet Section of Germany

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

Articles, Ressources (changed: Archive)	2010 March 7	Observations of recent comets	2010 March 12
Latest News	2010 March 12	Images	2010 March 7
Links	2010 January 25	Sketches	2009 December 27

Current Comets: 2010 March 12

Comet    Obs. Brightness Constell. Trend Analysis Images Remarks
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81P/Wild 9.5 Vir steady   x X
C/2009 K5 (McNaught) 9.5 Aql brighter x
C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) 11.5 Dra fading x    X
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 11 Leo    fading x X
C/2006 W3 (Christensen)    11 Cap fading x   low
C/2009 O2 (Catalina) 10.5 Peg Brighter x
88P/Howell 12.5 Cet fading   x X low
118P/Shoemaker-Levy 12.5 Ori steady   x X
65P/Gunn 13.5? Sgr brighter x    low
southern sky

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 February 4)
Schweifstern The Journal of the German Comet Section (2010 February 20)
Publications of the German Comet Section (2009 February 5)
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 February 20)
Software ICQ_Format.exe for formatting observation results (2009 February 3)
Analysis of currently observed comets (2010 February 20)
Submitting Comet Observations: Guidelines and ICQ-codes (2008 February 8)
Some Remarks on the Use of HIPPARCOS/TYCHO-Magnitudes

Articles

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 March 7)
A selection of beautiful images of the FG Kometen archive (2009 November 24)
Past Comets: Light Curves, Observations and other Information (2010 February 20)

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

Zugriffe seit dem 02. November 1996.