Bright comets of the Past
(magnitude <6 )
C/1996 B2 Hyakutake
C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp
(1997)
C/1998 J1 SOHO
C/2001 A2 LINEAR
C/2000 WM1 LINEAR
(2002)
C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang
C/2002 V1 NEAT
(2003)
C/2002 X5 Kudo-Fujikawa
(2003)
C/2001 Q4 NEAT (2004)
C/2002 T7 LINEAR (2004)
C/2004 Q2 Machholz (2005)
C/2006 A1 Pojmanski
C/2006 P1 McNaught (2007)
C/2007 F1 LONEOS
8P Tuttle (2008)
17P Holmes (2008)
C/2007 W1 Boattini (2008)
C/2007 N3 Lulin (2009)
C/2011 W3
Lovejoy
C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS (2013)
C/2012 F6 Lemmon (2013)
C/2012 S1 ISON (2013)
C/2013 R1 Lovejoy
C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy (2015)
C/2014 Q1 PANSTARRS
(2015)
252P LINEAR (2016)
46P Wirtanen (2018)
C/2020 F8 SWAN
C/2020 F3
NEOWISE
C/2021 A1 Leonard
C/2022 E3 ZTF(2023)
C/2023 P1 Nishimura
Binocular Comets
(magnitude 6-9)
C/2014 E2 Jacques
C/2013 V5 Oukaimeden (2014)
C/2013 A1 Siding Spring
(2014)
C/2012 K1 PANSTARRS (2014)
15P Finlay (2014-15)
C/2015 G2 MASTER
C/2013 US10 Catalina
(2015)
C/2013 X1 PANSTARRS (2016)
2P Encke
(2017)
41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
(2017)
45P Honda-Mrkos-Padjusakova
(2017)
C/2017 E4 Lovejoy
C/2015 ER61 PANSTARRS
(2017)
C/2015 V2 Johnson
(2017)
C/2017 T3 ATLAS
C/2018 N1 NEOWISE
21P Giacobini-Zinner (2018)
C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto
(2019)
C/2018 W2 Africano
(2019)
C/2019 Y4
ATLAS (2020)
C/2019 U6 Lemmon (2020)
C/2020 M3 ATLAS
88P Howell (2020)
C/2020 S3 Erasmus
156P Russell-LINEAR
(2020)
C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS
(2022)
C/2021 T4 Lemmon
C/2023 E1 ATLAS
C/2023 H2 Lemmon
C/2020 V2 ZTF
103P Hartley
Other
interesting comets
29P Schwassmann Wachmann
Disintegrating Comets
C/2011 X1 Elenin (2012)
C/2012 T5 Bressi
C/2017 E4 Lovejoy
C/2019 Y4
ATLAS (2020)
C/2020 F8 SWAN
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