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