Bolton Astronomical Society

As I mentioned during our Zoom meeting on 5th March, I had set up my imaging system for this comet,

Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan was discovered in Japan in 1965 and has a period of around six years. I managed

This comet was discovered by Japanese amateur Yoshio Kushida in 1994 and has a period of around 7.5

Last night I heard a fascinating radio documentary about the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968: https

It even made it into the local news: https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23948270.moon-halo-seen-

As we had another consecutive clear night (when did that last happen?), I set up my colour imaging

This comet was first detected by the LINEAR project in 2002 (when it was designated 2002 LN13), but

Three and a half months later I had another opportunity to catch this comet. It had brightened to

Did anyone manage to see this? I had my TS70ED refractor set up at the bottom of the garden: The

I got it again last night, with a better view of the tail. I took the data before the Full Moon rose:

Comet 118P was discovered by the celebrated comet-hunters Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker and David

I've been playing with Sunday night's data (using Siril and GIMP), to produce this rendition

Having been prevented by the clouds on Monday, I only needed to wait a couple more nights before

Oops, I mixed up the attributions between 2022 A2 and 2022 U2 - A2 was in fact discovered by

I had another look at this comet last night - it's brighter now (although still only magnitude 10

Ross, I managed to get a few shots including this one I've posted on Flickr https://www.flickr.

Last night I tried another imaging run on this comet. I collected 73x 1-min exposures, but after I

Looking back at this post, I've spotted a couple of errors... The first comet was in fact C/2020

This is a comet which I'd never expected to see, as it was only predicted to peak at magnitude 20

Folks, a short 9 minute documentary on Gerry Anderson's, Doppelganger/Journey to the Far Side of

Short of the enthusiasm to get up before dawn and go out into the Park with my binoculars, I decided

Looking to Upgrade from my Canon 700d (after I damaged the USB ports). I use the camera for both

This is my "newest" comet to date - discovered only last August (by the ATLAS survey system

I've been following this comet since February 2021 and it has now peaked at 9th magnitude. I

After clear skies all afternoon, I decided to have another look at the comet last night.

Three weeks later, this comet is still high in the sky (just North of Orion), but has faded

This one is C/2020 V2 (ZTF), which although faint is well-placed: very close to the star Megrez in

Last night I got my first view of comet C/2021 F1 (Lemmon-PanSTARRS). Although it was low in the NW (

Now that this comet is higher in the sky, I managed to catch it with my main set-up half-way down the

With no clouds to contend with, I could concentrate on the two brighter comets which I'd "