The table list the provisional SOHO number for the comet, the day (UT) and month of the first (discovery) observation, the year and comet identification, the LASCO coronagraph on which it was discovered, the discoverer (additional names are independent discoverers), with the number of their discoveries given in brackets following the name, and finally the date of discovery. Note that provisional numbers may be changed if the comet is not confirmed and do not necessarily match those given on the SOHO web pages.
SOHO Observed Des C G Observers Discovered 892 04/10/2004 T8 C3 K Hua Su (January 1) 897 03/01/2005 A2 C3 K Yuan-shang Tsai (1) (January 3) 898 06/01/2005 A3 C3 K Hua Su, K Cernis, D Johnson (2) (January 6) X 11/01/2005 C3 K Jim Danaher (January 11) 899 13/01/2005 A4 C3 K Hua Su, Kazimieras Cernis (January 13) 900 15/01/2005 A5 C3 K Rainer Kracht (January 15) 901 25/01/2005 B2 C3 K Kazimieras Cernis (January 25) 902 26/01/2005 B3 C3 K Xavier Leprette (January 26) 904 30/01/2005 B4 C2 Y Bo Zhou (January 30) 905 02/02/2005 C1 C2 Y Hua Su (February 2) 906 02/02/2005 C2 C3 K Hua Su (February 2) 903 05/03/1997 E2 C3 K Xavier Leprette (February 3) 907 07/02/2005 C3 C3 K Xavier Leprette (February 7) 908 12/02/2005 C4 C2 O Rainer Kracht (February 13) 909 22/02/2005 D2 C3 K Tony Hoffman (February 22) 910 22/02/2005 D3 C3 K Kazimieras Cernis (February 22) 911 23/02/2005 D1 C2 O Hua Su, Xing Gao (5) (February 23) 912 26/02/2005 D4 C3 K Bo Zhou (February 26) 913 26/02/2005 D5 C3 K Bo Zhou (February 26) 914 06/03/2005 E3 C2 K Michael Oates (145) (March 7) 915 10/03/2005 E4 C3 D Rainer Kracht (March 10) 916 11/03/2005 E5 C3 K Hua Su (March 12) 917 13/03/2005 E6 C3 K Bo Zhou (March 13) 918 14/03/2005 E7 C2 K Xavier Leprette (March 14) 918 14/03/2005 C3 K Kazimieras Cernis (March 14) 919 15/03/2005 E8 C2 K Tony Hoffman, Kazimieras Cernis (March 15) 919 15/03/2005 C3 K Xavier Leprette, Tony Hoffman (March 15) 920 08/08/1997 P4 C3 K Rainer Kracht (March 13) 921 08/08/1997 P5 C3 K Rainer Kracht (March 13) 922 19/09/1997 S5 C3 K Rainer Kracht (March 14) 923 21/01/1997 B4 C3 O Rainer Kracht (March 15) 924 15/03/2005 E9 C2 K Bo Zhou (March 15) 925 17/03/2005 F1 C3 K Hua Su (March 17) 926 18/03/2005 F2 C3 K Hua Su, Kazimieras Cernis (March 18) 927 02/05/1997 J5 C3 K Rainer Kracht (March 22) 928 26/10/1998 U7 C3 K Xavier Leprette (March 22) 930 11/11/1996 V2 C3 D Rainer Kracht (March 22) 929 02/11/1997 V7 C3 O Rainer Kracht (March 22) 931 03/07/1996 N3 C3 Y Rainer Kracht (March 23) 932 28/03/2005 F3 C2 K Maik Meyer (36) (March 28) 933 28/03/2005 F4 C3 K Hua Su (March 28) 934 28/03/2005 F5 C2 K Bo Zhou (March 28) 935 04/04/2005 G3 C3 K Xavier Leprette (April 4) 936 08/04/2005 G4 C2 K Hua Su (April 8) 937 09/04/2005 G5 C2 K Chong Liang (1) (April 9) 938 11/04/2005 G6 C2 K Bo Zhou (April 11) 939 14/04/2005 G2 C3 D Hua Su (April 14) 940 14/04/2005 G7 C2 K Hua Su (April 14) 941 28/09/2000 S6 C3 K Rainer Kracht (April 15) 942 10/11/2000 V4 C3 O Rainer Kracht (163) (April 15) 943 17/04/2005 H2 C2 Y Hua Su (April 17) 944 21/04/2005 H3 C3 K Hua Su (April 21) 945 21/04/2005 H4 C2 K Chong Liang (2), Rob Matson (April 21) U 24/04/2005 C3 K Bo Zhou (April 24) 946 24/04/2005 H5 C2 K Tony Hoffman (April 24) 947 25/04/2005 H6 C2 K Rainer Kracht (April 25) 948 26/04/2005 H8 C2 K Bo Zhou, P Shkreby (12), Ali Koohpaee (April 26) 949 26/04/2005 H7 C2 O Rainer Kracht (April 26) 950 28/04/2005 H9 C2 Y Bo Zhou (April 29) 951 02/05/2005 J3 C2 K Chong Liang (3) (May 2) 952 05/05/2005 J4 C2 K Maik Meyer (37) (May 5) 953 08/05/2005 J5 C2 K Tony Hoffman (May 8) 954 10/05/2005 J6 C3 K Bo Zhou, Kazimieras Cernis (May 10) 955 10/05/2005 J7 C3 K Bo Zhou (May 10) 956 12/05/2005 J8 C2 K Hua Su (May 12) 957 14/05/2005 J9 C2 K John Sachs (May 14) 958 14/05/2005 J10 C2 K Bo Zhou, Mike Boschat (63) (May 15) 959 15/05/2005 J11 C2 K Bo Zhou, Tony Hoffman (May 15) 960 15/05/2005 J12 C2 K Tony Hoffman (May 15) 961 17/05/2005 K4 C2 Y Rainer Kracht (May 17) 962 18/05/2005 K5 C2 K Hua Su (May 18) 963 20/05/2005 K6 C2 K Tony Hoffman (May 20) 964 20/05/2005 K7 C2 K Hua Su, Xavier Leprette, Quanzhi Ye (May 20) 965 20/05/2005 K8 C2 K Karl Battams (May 20) 966 16/08/2001 Q9 C3 K Rainer Kracht (May 26) 967 28/09/2001 S3 C3 K Rainer Kracht (May 26) 968 28/05/2005 K9 C2 Y Rainer Kracht (169) (May 28) 969 30/05/2005 K10 C2 K Karl Battams (May 31) 970 01/06/2005 L5 C2 K Hua Su (June 1) 971 05/06/2005 L6 C2 K Sebastian Hoenig, Hoffman, Leprette (June 5) 972 05/06/2005 L7 C3 K Tony Hoffman (June 5) 973 06/06/2005 L8 C2 K Hua Su, Tony Hoffman (June 6) 974 06/06/2005 L9 C2 K Bo Zhou (June 6) 975 09/06/2005 L10 C2 K Kazimieras Cernis (June 9) 976 09/06/2005 L11 C3 K Bo Zhou (June 9) 977 12/06/2005 L12 C2 K Tony Hoffman (June 12) 978 12/06/2005 L13 C2 K Hua Su (June 12) 979 12/06/2005 L14 C2 K Tony Hoffman (June 12) 980 15/06/2005 L15 C3 K Xavier Leprette (June 15) 981 16/06/2005 M2 C2 K Karl Battams (11) (June 16) 982 19/06/2005 M3 C2 O Hua Su (June 19) 983 20/06/2005 M4 C2 K Tony Hoffman (64), Hua Su (June 21) 984 20/06/2005 M5 C2 K Jinao Zhang (1) (June 21) 985 24/06/2005 M6 C2 K Sebastian Hoenig (46) (June 24) 986 25/06/2005 M7 C3 K Xavier Leprette (131) (June 25) 987 27/06/2005 M8 C2 K Rob Matson (June 27) 988 27/06/2005 M9 C3 K Rob Matson (June 27) 989 29/06/2005 M10 C2 K Kazimieras Cernis (28) (June 29) 990 06/07/2005 N6 C2 K Tao Chen (1), Hua Su (39) (July 6) 991 11/07/2005 N7 C3 K Rob Matson (July 11) 992 12/07/2005 N8 C3 K Bo Zhou, John Sachs (59) (July 12) 993 13/07/2005 N9 C3 K Rob Matson (July 13) 994 13/07/2005 N10 C3 K Bo Zhou (24) (July 13) 995 21/07/2005 O3 C3 K Rob Matson (48) (July 21) 996 23/07/2005 O4 C3 K Tony Hoffman (65), John Sachs (60) (July 23) 997 26/07/2005 O6 C3 K Tony Hoffman (66), Quanzhi Ye (2) (July 26) 998 26/07/2005 O5 C2 Y Tony Hoffman (67) (July 26) 999 05/08/2005 P1 C3 K Tony Scarmato, Q Ye (3), X Gao (6) (August 5) 1000 05/08/2005 P2 C3 K Tony Scarmato (23), Hua Su (40) (August 5) 1001 11/08/2005 P4 C3 K Tony Hoffman (68) (August 11 1002 12/08/2005 P5 C3 K Hua Su (41) (August 12) 1003 14/08/2005 P6 C3 K Hua Su (42) (August 14) 1004 17/08/2005 Q5 C3 K Steve Farmer (August 17) 1005 19/08/2005 Q6 C2 O Hua Su, Tony Hoffman, Maik Meyer (August 19) 1006 23/08/2005 Q2 C2 Y Tony Hoffman (August 23) 1007 24/08/2005 Q7 C3 K Steve Farmer (3) (August 24) 1012 04/08/2005 P3 SW O Michael Mattiazzo et al (August 25) 1008 25/08/2005 Q8 C2 Y Hua Su (August 25) 1009 29/08/2005 Q9 C3 K Steve Farmer, Rob Matson, Hua Su (August 29) 1011 30/08/2005 Q3 C2 O Tony Hoffman (71) (August 30) 1010 30/08/2005 Q10 C3 K Bo Zhou (August 30) 1013 05/09/2005 R5 C3 K Hua Su (September 6) 1014 06/09/2005 R6 C3 K Hua Su, Bo Zhou (26) (September 6) 1015 15/09/2005 R7 C3 K Hua Su (September 15) 1016 18/09/2005 S5 C3 K Hua Su (September 19) 1017 20/09/2005 S6 C3 K Hua Su (50) (September 20) 1019 23/09/2005 S7 C3 K Quanzhi Ye (4) (September 23) 1018 23/09/2005 S8 C3 K Hua Su (September 23) 1020 24/09/2005 S9 C3 K Hua Su (September 24) 1021 25/09/2005 S10 C3 K Hua Su (September 25) 1022 24/09/2005 S11 C3 K Tao Chen (2) (September 25) 1023 26/09/2005 S12 C3 K Hua Su (September 26) 1024 27/09/2005 S1 C3 K Hua Su (September 27) 1025 29/09/2005 S13 C3 K Bo Zhou, Tony Hoffman (September 29) 1026 01/10/2005 T6 C3 K Hua Su (October 1) 1027 04/10/2005 T7 C3 K Bo Zhou, Hua Su, Quanzhi Ye (October 4) 1028 06/10/2005 T8 C3 K Hua Su (October 6) U 06/10/2005 C2 K Steve Farmer (October 6) 1029 08/10/2005 T9 C2 Y Hua Su (59) (October 8) 1030 14/10/2005 T10 C2 K Hua Su (October 14) 1031 15/10/2005 T11 C3 K Tony Hoffman (October 15) 1038 06/10/2005 T4 SW O Rob Matson, Michael Mattiazzo (October 17) 1032 18/10/2005 U2 C3 K Hua Su (October 18) 1033 18/10/2005 U3 C3 K Hua Su (October 18) 1034 19/10/2005 U4 C3 K Hua Su (October 19) 1035 21/10/2005 U5 C3 K Tony Scarmato (October 21) 1036 23/10/2005 U6 C3 K Bo Zhou (October 23) 1037 24/10/2005 U7 C2 K Quanzhi Ye (October 24) 1039 30/10/2005 U8 C2 K Hua Su (October 30) 1040 02/11/2005 V2 C2 K Hua Su (November 2) 1041 03/11/2005 V3 C2 K Hua Su (November 3) 1042 04/11/2005 V4 C3 K Tony Scarmato, Hua Su (November 4) X51 06/11/2005 C2 K Hua Su (November 6) 1043 07/11/2005 V5 C2 K Rob Matson, Hua Su (November 7) 1044 08/11/2005 V6 C3 K Hua Su (November 8) X52 31/10/2005 C2 K Tony Hoffman (November 8) 1045 09/11/2005 V7 C2 K Hua Su (November 9) 1046 09/11/2005 V8 C2 O Hua Su (November 9) 1047 13/11/2005 V9 C3 K Hua Su (November 13) 1048 17/11/2005 W1 C2 D Hua Su, Rainer Kracht, Tony Scarmato (November 17) 1049 18/11/2005 W6 C3 K Tony Scarmato (November 18) 1050 19/11/2005 W7 C3 K Wentao Xu (November 19) 1051 19/11/2005 W8 C3 K Jiangao Ruan (1) (November 19) 1052 19/11/2005 W9 C2 Y Hua Su (November 19) 1053 19/11/2005 W10 C2 K Tony Hoffman, Bo Zhou (November 19) 1054 20/11/2005 W11 C2 Y Hua Su (November 21) 1055 20/11/2005 W12 C2 K Quanzhi Ye, Xing Gao (7), T Scarmato (November 21) 1056 21/11/2005 W13 C3 K Tony Scarmato, Hua Su (November 21) 1057 23/11/2005 W4 C2 R Bo Zhou (31) (November 23) 1058 23/11/2005 W14 C3 K Tony Scarmato (November 23) 1059 25/11/2005 W15 C3 K Hua Su, Tony Scarmato (30) (November 25) 1060 28/11/2005 W16 C3 K Rob Matson (November 28) 1061 29/11/2005 W17 C2 K Hua Su (November 29) 1062 29/11/2005 W5 C2 D Hua Su, Rainer Kracht (171) (November 29) 1063 04/12/2005 X2 C2 K Hua Su, DongHua Chen (December 4) 1064 04/12/2005 X3 C2 K Hua Su (December 4) 1065 06/12/2005 X4 C2 K K Cernis (29), T Hoffman (75) (December 6) 1066 08/12/2005 X5 C3 K Jiangao Ruan (December 8) 1067 08/12/2005 X6 C2 K Jiangao Ruan (3), Hua Su (December 8) 1068 09/12/2005 X7 C2 K Hua Su (84) (December 9) 1069 11/12/2005 X8 C2 K Quanzhi Ye (7) (December 12) 1070 12/12/2005 X9 C2 K Rob Matson (52) (December 12) 1071 17/12/2005 Y1 C2 R Steve Farmer (6) (December 17) 1072 20/12/2005 Y3 C3 K Quanzhi Ye, Tony Scarmato, Tao Chen (December 20) 1073 20/12/2005 Y4 C2 K Sebastian Hoenig (December 20) 1074 22/12/2005 Y5 C2 K Karl Battams (December 22) 1075 22/12/2005 Y6 C2 K Karl Battams (December 22) 1076 25/12/2005 Y8 C2 Y Rainer Kracht (December 26) 1077 24/12/2005 Y7 C3 K Rainer Kracht (December 26) 1078 26/12/2005 Y9 C3 K Steve Farmer, Robert Gagliano (December 26) 1079 27/12/2005 Y10 C2 K Quanzhi Ye (December 27) 1080 05/12/1996 X3 C2 R Rainer Kracht (December 29) 1081 05/12/1996 X4 C2 R Rainer Kracht (December 29) 1083 29/01/1997 B5 C2 D Rainer Kracht (December 31) 1084 29/01/1997 B6 C2 D Rainer Kracht (December 31) 1085 29/01/1997 B7 C2 D Rainer Kracht (December 31)The column headed Des is the half month or other designation of the comet. The column headed C gives the SOHO instrument (C2 or C3 for the LASCO coronagraphs or SW for SWAN) that the comet was discovered in. The column headed G indicates if it is a provisional member of the Kreutz group (K), Meyer group (Y), Marsden group (D), Kracht (R) or other comet (O). P in the SOHO number column indicates the discovery is pending, C indicates that it is confirmed, but not yet numbered, U indicates that is was not confirmed, X that it was confirmed, but there were insufficient observations.
Note that my observer count also includes X/ comets which are not counted as confirmed comets by the SOHO team. Where two or more people report discoveries nearly simultaneously, up to the first three observers are credited here. Where discoverers are clearly not following the SOHO or BAA Comet Section guidelines, they are not credited here at all. If initial reports don't include sufficient positions others may also be credited.
Official milestones: 942 - Kracht (150), 986 - Leprette (100), 1029 - Su (50)
It is possible that there are further comets to be found in the archival data. [Proved correct on February 3, with more on March 15, March 22, March 23, April 15, December 29]