comets Broughton and Christensen

Ah, my bad on the Holmes information, not even sure where I read it (recently) that is was still near Perseus...

:blush:

last night both comets looked almost the same:)



Date Meth Mag Chart Open Instr (F) Pow Size Condens (Tail) (Angle)

C/2006 OF2 Broughton

2008 08 31.01 S 11.3 TK 30 L 4 120 2 2
2008 09 26.94 S 11.2 TK 30 L 4 120 2 1
2008 10 22.91 S 10.4 TK 30 L 4 60 3 6


C/2006 W3 Christensen

2008 09 05.84 S 10.5 TK 30 L 4 96 3 1
2008 09 26.92 S 10.3 TK 30 L 4 120 3 4
2008 10 01.82 S 10.4 TK 30 L 4 120 3 4
2008 10 22.90 S 10.3 TK 30 L 4 60 3 6

Almost a month ago, to find again these two little comets. Always too much clouds these days in November. Also the beginning of the evening was clouded out, so again I could not spot comet c/2008 A1 McNaught. I still have the only observation of it, on Oct 27.
But around 23h the sky was clear, so I quickly found c/2006 W3 Christensen in Cepheus (my estimate was mag 9. and c/2006 OF2 Broughton who makes a turning round now above Auriga (my estimate was mag 10.3)