British Astronomical Association
Comet Section
2015 News
Jan 01 Happy New Year
Jan 04 Sergei Schmalz reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 13 The January 2015 edition of The Comet's Tale is published
Jan 15 Discovery of 2015 A1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Jan 16 Discovery of 2015 A2 (PanSTARRS) reported
Jan 18 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 21 Worachate Boonplod reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 22 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 25 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jan 25 Discovery of 2015 A3 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Jan 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 28 Richard Miles reports a significant outburst on 17P/Holmes
Jan 31 Zhijian Xu reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jan 31 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 04 Discovery of 2015 B1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Feb 08 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 09 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 10 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 12 Peiyuan Sun reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 13 Discovery of 2015 B2 (PanSTARRS) reported
Feb 14 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 17 Discovery of 2015 C1 (P/TOTAS-Gibbs) reported
Feb 18 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 18 Worachate Boonplod reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 18 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 21 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 22 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 23 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 23 Worachate Boonplod and Szymon Liwo report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 24 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 24 SOHO non-group comet from February 18 designated 2015 D1
Feb 26 Hanjie Tan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Feb 27 Discovery of 2015 C2 (SWAN) reported
Feb 27 Discovery of 2015 D2 (PanSTARRS) reported
Feb 27 Discovery of 2015 D3 (PanSTARRS) reported
Mar 01 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 02 Discovery of 2015 D4 (Borisov) announced
Mar 02 Discovery of 2015 D5 (Kowalski) announced
Mar 05 Worachate Boonplod, Peiyuan Sun and Szymon Liwo report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 05 Szymon Liwo reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 09 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 13 Karl Battams reports two non-group comets in real time C2 images
Mar 19 Discovery of 2015 D6 (P/Lemmon-PanSTARRS) announced
Mar 19 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 20 Recovery of 2010 K2 (P/WISE) as 2015 B3 announced
Mar 20 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 24 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 25 New comet found in SWAN images
Mar 25 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 26 Discovery of 2015 F1 (P/PanSTARRS) announced
Mar 26 Discovery of 2015 F2 (Polonia) announced
Mar 27 New SWAN comet designated 2015 F3
Mar 28 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 28 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Mar 30 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Mar 31 Discovery of 2015 F4 (Jacques) announced
Apr 01 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 02 Recovery of 1994 N2 (P/McNaught-Hartley) as 2014 M6 announced
Apr 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 05 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 05 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 06 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 06 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 06 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 07 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 07 Worachate Boonplod, Szymon Liwo and Zhijian Xu report a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 08 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 09 Recovery of 2008 S1 (P/Catalina-McNaught) as 2015 G1 announced
Apr 09 Zhijian Xu and Worachate Boonplod report a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 09 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 10 Discovery of 2015 F5 (SWAN-Xingming)announced
Apr 10 Discovery of 2015 G2 (MASTER) announced
Apr 11 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 12 Worachate Boonplod and Salil Mulye report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 12 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 13 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 14 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 15 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 15 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 18 Szymon Liwo reports a Meyer group comet in real time C3 images
Apr 21 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 22 Recovery of 2004 R1 (P/McNaught) as 2015 HC10 announced
Apr 23 Discovery of 2015 H1 (Bressi) announced
Apr 25 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 27 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 28 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 28 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 29 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 29 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 30 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 30 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Apr 30 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 02 Discovery of 2015 H2 (PanSTARRS) announced
May 02 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 04 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 07 Richard Miles reports a major outburst of 29P/
May 07 Jiangao Ruan reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 08 Zesheng Yang reports a non group comet in real time C3 images
May 09 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 16 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 19 Discovery of 2015 J1 (PanSTARRS) announced
May 19 Discovery of 2015 J2 (PanSTARRS) announced
May 19 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 20 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 20 Jiangao Ruan reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 21 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 21 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
May 23 Discovery of 2015 J3 (P/NEOWISE) announced
May 23 Discovery of 2015 K2 (PanSTARRS) announced
May 23 Discovery of 2015 K1 (MASTER) announced
May 23 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 23 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 24 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
May 25 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 26 Recovery of 2010 R2 (La Sagra) as 2015 K3 announced
May 27 Discovery of 2015 K4 (PanSTARRS) announced
May 27 Worachate Boonplod reports two Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
May 28 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
May 31 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 01 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 03 Worachate Boonplod reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 03 Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 04 Discovery of 2015 GX (PanSTARRS) announced
Jun 05 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 09 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in delayed C2 images
Jun 10 Discovery of 2015 K5 (P/PanSTARRS) announced
Jun 10 Recovery of 2009 L2 (P/Yang-Gao) as 2015 K5 announced
Jun 13 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 15 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 18 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 20 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21 Michele Mazzucato reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 21 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 22 Discovery of 2015 M1 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jun 24 Discovery of 2015 LC2 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jun 24 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 25 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 25 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jun 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 27 Simone Renai reports a Kreutz group comet in C2 images
Jun 27 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jun 30 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 03 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 05 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 05 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 07 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 12 Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C2 images
Jul 12 Bo Zhou reports a non-group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 15 Discovery of 2015 M2 (P/PanSTARRS) announced
Jul 15 Discovery of 2015 M3 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jul 16 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Jul 21 Discovery of 2015 O1 (PanSTARRS) announced
Jul 24 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 02 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 03 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 10 Recovery of 2007 V2 (P/Hill) as 2015 P1 reported
Aug 10 Michal Biesiada reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 11 Recovery of 2002 Q1 (P/Van Ness) as 2015 P2 reported
Aug 11 Discovery of 2015 P3 (SWAN) by Michael Mattiazzo reported
Aug 19 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Aug 19 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 19 Discovery of 2015 P4 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Aug 19 Discovery of 2015 Q1 (Scotti) reported
Aug 20 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Aug 27 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 01 Discovery of 2015 Q2 (P/Pimentel) reported
Sep 02 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 03 Worachate Boonplod reports the return of 322P/SOHO in real time C2 images
Sep 06 Discovery of a fragment of 141P/Machholz reported
Sep 09 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 10 Discovery of 2015 R1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 11 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 13 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images (SOHO 3000)
Sep 14 Worachate Boonplod and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 14 Worachate Boonplod and Salil Mulye report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15 Bo Zhou reports a non group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 15 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 16 Discovery of 2015 R2 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 16 Discovery of 2015 R3 (PanSTARRS) reported
Sep 23 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 25 Salil Mulye reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 25 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Sep 25 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 25 Worachate Boonplod reports a Marsden group comet in real time C3 images
Sep 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 02 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 04 Bo Zhou reports a non group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 05 Recovery of 1998 QP54 (P/LONEOS-Tucker) as 2015 S1 announced
Oct 06 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 09 Catalina object 2015 RK245 not (yet) a comet
Oct 11 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 12 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 12 Recovery of 2003 WC7 (P/LINEAR-Catalina) as 2015 T1 reported
Oct 13 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 13 Discovery of 2015 T2 (PanSTARRS) reported
Oct 14 Worachate Boonplod reports a non group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 14 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 15 Discovery of 2015 TO19 (P/Lemmon-PanSTARRS) reported
Oct 16 Discovery of 2015 T3 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Oct 16 Discovery of 2015 T4 (PanSTARRS) reported
Oct 18 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 19 Worachate Boonplod, Hanjie Tan and Zhijian Xu report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 20 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 20 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 21 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 22 Worachate Boonplod and Hanjie Tan report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 22 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 23 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 24 Recovery of 1999 V1 (Catalina) as 2015 U1 announced
Oct 24 2015 TQ209 (LINEAR) found to have cometary features
Oct 26 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 27 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 27 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 28 Jonathan Shanklin retires as BAA & SPA Comet Section Director, with Nick James becoming the 12th Director for the BAA
Oct 30 Zhijian Xu and Worachate Boonplod report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 30 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 31 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Oct 31 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 31 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Oct 31 Trygve Prestgard reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 01 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 05 Discovery of 2015 V1 (PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 05 Discovery of 2015 V2 (Johnson) reported
Nov 05 Worachate Boonplod and Peiyuan Sun report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 06 Discovery of 2015 V3 (PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 08 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 09 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Nov 10 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Shaoxiong Gu and Worachate Boonplod report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 11 Worachate Boonplod reports three Kreutz group comets in real time C2 images
Nov 15 Discovery of 2015 T5 (Sheppard-Tholen) reported
Nov 15 Discovery of 2015 V4 (PanSTARRS) reported
Nov 16 Worachate Boonplod reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 16 Zhijian Xu reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 21 Discovery of 2015 W1 (Gibbs) reported
Nov 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 26 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 26 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 26 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 28 Worachate Boonplod and Szymon Liwo report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 29 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 29 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Nov 29 Discovery of 2015 W2 (P/Catalina) reported
Nov 30 Worachate Boonplod and Michele Mazzucato report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 01 Szymon Liwo and Worachate Boonplod report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 02 SOHO's 20th birthday!
Dec 03 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 04 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 04 Bo Zhou reports two Kreutz group comets in delayed C2 images
Dec 05 Discovery of 2015 X1 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 05 Discovery of 2015 X2 (Catalina) reported
Dec 06 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 06 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 06 Trygve Prestgard reports a Meyer group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 06 Bo Zhou and Trygve Prestgard report a Kreutz group comets in delayed C2 images
Dec 08 Simone Renai reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 08 Discovery of 2015 X3 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 08 Discovery of 2015 X4 (Elenin) reported
Dec 14 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comets in delayed C2 images
Dec 14 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 14 Bo Zhou reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 15 Discovery of 2015 X5 (PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 15 Discovery of 2015 X6 (P/PanSTARRS) reported
Dec 16 Discovery of 2015 XY1 (Lemmon) reported
Dec 16 Bo Zhou reports a Meyer group comet in C2 images
Dec 16 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 17 Discovery of 2015 X7 (ATLAS) reported
Dec 18 Discovery of 2015 X8 (NEOWISE) reported
Dec 18 Bo Zhou reports a Marsden group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 18 Szymon Liwo reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 19 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 20 Discovery of 2015 Y1 (LINEAR) reported
Dec 20 Discovery of 2015 YG1 (NEOWISE) reported
Dec 21 Masanori Uchina reports a Kracht group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 23 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 23 Masanori Uchina reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 25 Wishing a very happy Christmas to all
Dec 25 Masanori Uchina and Michal Biesiada report a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 26 Worachate Boonplod and Michal Biesiada report a Kreutz group comet in real time C3 images
Dec 27 Bo Zhou reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Dec 28 Worachate Boonplod reports a Kreutz group comet in real time C2 images
Published by Jonathan Shanklin. Jon Shanklin - jds@ast.cam.ac.uk