Comets

These pictures were taken either from Bolton or Bristol, mostly using a 20cm aperture telescope and MX5C CCD camera. However, a couple of the brighter ones were imaged with a telephoto lens, and in one case 35mm film was used.

Comet Ikeya-Zhang in April 2002
(35mm film)
Comet Hoenig in September 2002
shortly after its discovery
Comet Kudo-Fujikawa in January 2003 Comet NEAT (2002 V5) in February 2003
Comet Juels-Holvorcem in March 2003 Comet Encke (2P) in November 2003
Comet LINEAR (2002 T7) in Febuary 2004 Comet NEAT (2001 Q4) in June 2004
Comet LINEAR (2003 K4) in August 2004 Comet Machholz in Febuary 2005
Comet Tempel 1 (9P) in May 2005
two months before NASA's "Deep Impact" probe hit it
A bright fragment of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann
(73P-B) in May 2006.
Another bright fragment of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann
(73P-C) in May 2006.
Comet Barnard (177P) in August 2006 Comet SWAN (2006 M4) in October 2006
Comet Faye (4P) in November 2006 Comet Garradd (2006 L1) in December 2006