My Comet Observations

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My Comet Observations

Welcome to my page of comet observation results! Here you will find a complete list of my cometary observations since I first saw Halley's Comet on the night of November 11, 1985.

Below is a list of 21 comets I observed visually and photographically since 1985:

Comet's Name	Official Designation	Year Observed	Method
Lulin	C/2007 N3	2009	Visual Photographic
Holmes	17P	2007	Visual Photographic
McNaught	C/2006 P1	2007	Photographic
SWAN	C/2006 M4	2006	Visual
Schwassmann-Wachmann-3	73P	2006	Visual
Machholz	C/2004 Q2	2005	Visual
NEAT	C/2001 Q4	2004	Visual
Hoenig	C/2002 O4	2002	Visual
Ikeya-Zhang	153P C/2002 C1	2002	Visual
LINEAR	C/2000 WM1	2001	Visual
Lee	C/1999 H1	1999	Visual
Giacobini-Zinner	21P	1998	Visual
Wild 2	81P	1997	Visual
Hale-Bopp	C/1995 O1	1996-1997	Visual Photographic
Hyakutake	C/1996 B2	1996	Visual
Swift-Tuttle	109P	1992	Visual
Austin	C/1989 X1	1990	Visual Photographic
Levy	C/1990 K1	1990	Visual
Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko	C/1989 Q1	1990	Visual
Brorsen-Metcalf	23P	1989	Visual
Halley's Comet	1P	1985-1986	Visual

Our Observation Results of Comet Hale-Bopp

Our Observation Results of Comet Hyakutake

My Observation Results of Halley's Comet

My Observations of Other Comets

I am included in a list of visual comet observers/contributors to BAA Comet Section in 1997, thanks to
my observations of comets Hale-Bopp and Wild 2; published in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association,
Vol 112 No 3, June 2002, "The Comets of 1997" by Jonathan Shanklin.

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