Recently discovered comets

The below table lists comets that have been discovered in the past 6 months.
For detailed information about a comet, click on its designation.

Comet(s) Today Perihelion Nearest approach
designation Hâ‚’ magn delta radius date magn radius date magn delta
C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)7.020.47.77 AU7.92 AU20 Jan 20265.20.56 AU17 Feb 20266.21.01 AU
A/2024 D111.021.210.22 AU10.85 AU4 Dec 202719.16.70 AU10 Nov 202719.15.96 AU
C/2024 C4 (ATLAS)14.516.81.10 AU1.62 AU30 Jan 202417.31.47 AU12 Apr 202416.90.95 AU
C/2024 C3 (PANSTARRS)9.021.15.76 AU6.74 AU8 Nov 202321.66.71 AU9 Mar 202421.15.74 AU
C/2024 C2 (PANSTARRS)6.020.28.46 AU9.09 AU12 Mar 202520.18.99 AU22 Feb 202520.18.12 AU
C/2024 C1 (PANSTARRS)11.520.93.66 AU4.53 AU31 Aug 202421.64.41 AU28 Feb 202420.93.61 AU
C/2024 B2 (Lemmon)11.520.83.95 AU4.31 AU6 Oct 202320.84.08 AU21 Jan 202420.33.38 AU
C/2024 B1 (Lemmon)13.020.53.42 AU3.02 AU7 Oct 202416.61.63 AU15 Oct 202416.61.99 AU
C/2024 A2 (ATLAS)12.516.61.73 AU1.95 AU28 Apr 202416.91.88 AU15 Mar 202416.61.72 AU
C/2024 A1 (ATLAS)7.018.05.34 AU5.44 AU13 Jun 202516.33.88 AU28 Jan 202515.73.28 AU
P/2023 Y2 (Gibbs)15.521.21.81 AU2.73 AU9 Aug 202321.52.28 AU15 Feb 202420.81.66 AU
P/2023 Y1 (Gibbs)17.021.11.28 AU2.25 AU29 Nov 202321.52.08 AU27 Feb 202420.91.23 AU
C/2023 X7 (PANSTARRS)9.020.55.85 AU5.82 AU14 May 202519.54.82 AU19 Jan 202518.94.00 AU
C/2023 X4 (Hogan)12.020.33.34 AU3.69 AU24 May 202420.73.66 AU12 Jan 202420.02.83 AU
P/2023 X3 (PANSTARRS)15.522.83.08 AU3.04 AU21 Apr 202423.03.03 AU11 Dec 202322.12.13 AU
C/2023 X2 (Lemmon)8.519.67.42 AU6.99 AU26 Dec 202517.55.10 AU11 Dec 202517.54.70 AU
C/2023 X1 (Leonard)13.521.12.63 AU2.53 AU18 Oct 202315.90.95 AU23 Dec 202316.71.02 AU
P/2023 V6 (PANSTARRS)11.521.74.97 AU4.65 AU17 Dec 202220.94.38 AU9 Oct 202220.63.39 AU
C/2023 V5 (Leonard)21.524.61.21 AU1.86 AU13 Dec 202320.50.85 AU4 Nov 202318.80.23 AU
C/2023 V4 (Camarasa-Duszanowicz)12.014.42.24 AU1.60 AU30 May 202412.61.12 AU4 Jul 202412.91.80 AU
C/2023 V3 (PANSTARRS)11.521.85.23 AU4.71 AU6 Aug 202321.24.47 AU4 Nov 202320.93.71 AU
P/2023 V2 (PANSTARRS)13.521.13.47 AU3.12 AU4 Feb 202420.73.10 AU15 Nov 202320.22.19 AU
C/2023 V1 (Lemmon)8.520.66.91 AU6.24 AU13 Jul 202519.15.09 AU12 Apr 202619.34.83 AU
C/2023 U1 (Fuls)8.018.75.12 AU5.22 AU12 Oct 202418.44.97 AU16 Jan 202418.74.69 AU
C/2023 T3 (Fuls)8.517.53.97 AU4.51 AU25 Jan 202516.13.55 AU15 Apr 202515.72.68 AU
C/2023 T2 (Borisov)14.519.52.02 AU2.25 AU22 Dec 202318.42.00 AU6 Jan 202418.41.47 AU
P/2023 T1 (PANSTARRS)14.021.13.20 AU2.84 AU22 May 202421.42.82 AU18 Nov 202320.32.04 AU
C/2023 S3 (Lemmon)16.015.41.15 AU1.34 AU19 Jan 202412.10.83 AU10 Nov 202314.70.56 AU
C/2023 S2 (ATLAS)15.020.63.27 AU2.53 AU15 Oct 202314.81.07 AU5 Nov 202314.91.20 AU
P/2023 S111.519.53.82 AU3.25 AU23 Feb 202516.82.62 AU2 Feb 202516.81.64 AU
A/2023 R320.022.51.30 AU1.89 AU18 Dec 202319.91.36 AU7 Dec 202319.80.49 AU
C/2023 RN3 (ATLAS)7.519.16.57 AU5.63 AU18 Jan 202318.55.17 AU17 Aug 202217.84.24 AU
C/2023 R2 (PANSTARRS)10.517.33.07 AU2.46 AU12 Aug 202411.90.91 AU16 Aug 202411.91.84 AU
C/2023 R1 (PANSTARRS)6.019.28.14 AU7.25 AU13 Apr 202614.23.57 AU13 Jun 202613.72.63 AU

For possible comets still needing confirmation, see http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NEO/pccp_tabular.html



For each of the listed comets, the current position is plotted in the below all-sky chart:





    Terminology:
            
    delta:      Distance between comet and earth in AU
    radius:     Distance between comet and sun in AU
    magn:       Magnitude (brightness) estimate    
    elong:      Elongation in degrees (angle sun-earth-comet)    
    AU:         Astronomical Unit (mean distance between earth and sun: 149597870.7 km
    Perihelion: On this date the comet (or other type of body) is closest to the sun
    Hâ‚’:         Absolute magnitude (magnitude from a distance of 1 AU) 
    

Orbital elements provided by MPC (Minor Planet Center).
Observations contributed by observers worldwide, via COBS (Comet Observation Database).
Calculations by a modified version of AAPlus, a C# implementation of the AA+ project by PJ Naughter from the algorithms presented in the book "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus.
NGC2000 dso catalog and star labels from VizieR as provided by the Strasbourg astronomical Data Center.
Tycho2 catalog from the ESO archive.