Summary: This month Its Just Nick Evetts & Neil Norman as Mary Spicer is off Becoming Mrs Mark McIntyre.. so a Bare Bones show and what Comets to watch for Next Year, Next Month we have some very special guests from the British Astronomical Association ……….<br> <a href="http://www.britastro.org/section_front/10" target="_blank">BAA Comet Section page</a><br> <a href="http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Ejds/" target="_blank">BAA Comet Section Visual Observations Page</a><br> <a href="http://www.britastro.org/projectalcock/" target="_blank">Project Alcock</a><br> <a href="http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm" target="_blank">The German Comet Group</a><br> <a href="http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html" target="_blank">Seiichi Yoshida’s page</a><br> <a href="http://cometobservations.freeservers.com" target="_blank">Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia</a><br> <a href="http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/" target="_blank">Comet chasing in October</a><br> <a href="http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CometMags.html" target="_blank">International Comet Quarterly</a><br> <a href="http://cometbase.net/" target="_blank">CometBase</a><br> <br> <br> A brief synopsis of the upcoming comets.<br> 45P/ Honda-Mrkos-Padjusakova .<br> Discovered in 1947, this comet makes its’ 13th return to perihelion on Dec 31st,2016,and is expected to reach magnitude 6 in February 2017.<br> 2P/ Encke.<br> Return of “old faithful”. This marks the 71st return since its’ discovery in 1786 ( only the return of 1944 was missed)<br><br> Perihelion is set for March 10th,2017 and a magnitude of 5 ( Naked eye) is confidently predicted.<br> 41P/ Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak.<br> Perihelion is April 11th, 2017 and this comet could easily attain magnitude 3.<br> ER61 (PanSTARRS)<br> A comet that was initially believed to be an asteroid !<br><br> For Northern observers, this will be a tough object due to its’ low inclination to the ecliptic as it reaches perihelion on May 9th, but saying that, it could still reach magnitude 6.<br><br> This object is related to the Damocloid group of comets.<br> C/2015 V2 (Johnson).<br> An Oort comet that is at perihelion on June 12th,2017, and is well placed for Northern observers.<br><br> The comet should reach magnitude 7 making it a binocular object.<br><br> Currently it is a full magnitude above predicted magnitude for the apparition.<br><br> But a word of caution, this is an Oort cloud comet and it could blow itself out early.<br>
