Comet Section of Germany

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

Articles, Ressources (changed: List of members)	2010 February 4	Observations of recent comets	2010 February 4
Latest News	2010 February 4	Images	2010 January 25
Links	2010 January 25	Sketches	2009 December 27

Current Comets: 2010 February 3

Comet    Obs. Brightness Constell. Trend Analysis Images Remarks
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C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) 10 Boo steady x    X
81P/Wild 10 Vir steady x X
88P/Howell 11 Aqr fading    x X low
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 11.5 Leo Outburst
118P/Shoemaker-Levy 12 Ori fading    X
C/2009 K5 (McNaught) 12.5 Sqr brighter low
P/2009 Q4(Boattini) 13? Leo ?       x X
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 (2009 December 2)
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 (2009 December 2)
Software ICQ_Format.exe for formatting observation results (2009 February 3)
Analysis of currently observed comets (2009 December 2)
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 January 28)
A selection of beautiful images of the FG Kometen archive (2009 November 24)
Past Comets: Light Curves, Observations and other Information (2009 December 2)
Gas production and chemical composition of selected comets (2007 June 27)

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

Zugriffe seit dem 02. November 1996.