New Comet Discovery

Author: Tom* Comments(7)

A new comet (C/2006 A1 Pojmanski) was discovered on an image taken on New Years Day, the actual discovery was on January 2 and confirmation images were taken on January 4. The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) and Grzegroz Pojmanski is credited with the find.


c/2006 A1
Image by John Drummond – Possum Observatory – New Zealand – Click the image to go there!

The comet will brighten rather quickly as it passes inside the orbit of Venus and is projected to reach a magnitude 7.6. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere (heads up to Ian) and have a pair of binoculars or better yet a telescope you should be able to see it without too much trouble in mid-February. The comet will be observable in the Northern Hemisphere at the end of February and the very early part of March. Once the comet becomes observable to us in the Northern Hemisphere it will fade rather quickly so keep your fingers crossed for good skies if you want to take a look.

There’s a partial ephemeris (from CBAT), images and more on the C/2006 website.

Here’s hoping for clear skies about then!!

7 Comments so far

  1. bob on January 7th, 2006

    Cool i dont want to miss out on that

  2. Michael on January 7th, 2006

    Neat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

  3. Stuart on January 7th, 2006

    Fantastic. That’ll be something for me to look for when I’m down in the southern hemisphere.

  4. dan on January 7th, 2006

    This is great news. The mysteries of this universe have always intrigued me. I hope that many more discoveries like this are made in 2006.

  5. Mary Leonard on January 8th, 2006

    I will be watching

  6. Dude on January 12th, 2006

    I’m watchin’ the skys!

  7. greg grisham on February 25th, 2006

    This comet is the announcement of NESARA being brought to us by extraterrestrials.