We acknowledge with thanks the comet observations from the COBS Comet Observation Database contributed by observers worldwide and used in this table to report recent comet observations. As the atmospheric conditions cannot be modeled precisely the times reported here should be considered correct with an approximation of few minutes.
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Thank you! If you have any feedback, please get in contact. Constellation Sagittarius. Estimated Magnitude JPL -. Go to interactive sky chart. Orbital elements. Interactive orbit visualization. Interactive sky chart. A report from Albany, N. The comet faded from naked-eye visibility by early February First sighted on Nov. Many textbooks often cite Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, of Lausanne, Switzerland as the discoverer, although his first sighting did not come until two weeks later.
By mid-January , the comet was described as 1st-magnitude with a 7-degree tail. By Feb. On Feb. Perihelion came on March 1, at a distance of On March 6, the comet appeared in the morning sky, accompanied by six brilliant tails that resembled a Japanese hand fan. This comet was a member of the Kruetz Sungrazing Comet Group , which has produced some of the most brilliant comets in recorded history.
Such comets actually graze through the outer atmosphere of the sun, and often do not survive. The comet passed only , miles , km from the sun's photosphere on Feb 27, Although a few observations suggest that it was seen for a few weeks prior to this date, on the day when of its closest approach to the sun it was widely observed in full daylight.
Positioned only 1 degree from the sun, this comet appeared as "an elongated white cloud" possessing a brilliant nucleus and a tail about 1 degree in length. Passengers onboard the ship Owen Glendower, off the Cape of Good Hope described it as a "short, dagger-like object" that closely followed the sun toward the western horizon. In the days that followed, as the comet moved away from the sun, it diminished in brightness but its tail grew enormously, eventually attaining a length of million miles million km.
If you were able to place the head of this comet at the sun's position, the tail would have extended beyond the orbit of the planet Mars! This comet is perhaps the brightest comet that has ever been seen; a gigantic member of the Kreutz Sungrazing Group. First spotted as a bright zero-magnitude object by a group of Italian sailors in the Southern Hemisphere on Sept.
By Sept. On that day, some observers described the comet's silvery radiance as scarcely fainter than the limb of the sun, suggesting a magnitude somewhere between and ! The following day, observers in Cordoba, Spain described the comet as a "blazing star" near the sun. The nucleus also broke into at least four separate parts. In the days and weeks that followed, the comet became visible in the morning sky as an immense object sporting a brilliant tail.
Today, some comet historians consider it as a "Super Comet," far above the run of even Great Comets. The first people to see this comet — then already at first magnitude — were workmen at the Transvaal Premier Diamond Mine in South Africa on Jan.
Two days later, three men at a railway station in nearby Kopjes casually watched the object for 20 minutes before sunrise, assuming that it was Halley's Comet. Later that morning, the editor of the local Johannesburg newspaper telephoned the Transvaal Observatory for a comment. The observatory's director, Robert Innes, must have initially thought this sighting was a mistake, since Halley's Comet was not in that part of the sky and nowhere near as conspicuous.
Innes looked for the comet the following morning, but clouds thwarted his view. However, on the morning of Jan. Later, at midday, Innes viewed it as a snowy-white object, brighter than Venus, several degrees from the sun. He sent out a telegram alerting the world to expect "Drake's Comet" — for so "Great Comet" sounded to the telegraph operator. It was visible during the daytime for a couple more days, then moved northward and away from the sun, becoming a stupendous object in the evening sky for the rest of January in the Northern Hemisphere.
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