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Geminid meteor crosses near Leonard, on a cold and cloudy night.
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Ioptron star tracker. Image Da Ko.
Our next bright comet?. Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS has brightened to magnitude 10. Image below courtesy Makioka, Jamanashi on the 29th of February.
One from the past, in march 1996 comet Hyakutake raced through the Big Dipper. Image Michael Jäger
More information on newly discoveredComet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) which may reach magnitude 6.7 in early february and will be conveniently placed for northern hemisphere observers. Chart below
Comet 41P from last night. The diameter is almost the size of a full moon. Image Fritz Helmut Hemmerich.