Comet 205P Giacobini outburst after being lost for 112 years

[TonyF.070112]

Comet 205P Giacobini outburst after being lost for 112 years.

On Sept 10 2008 Comet D/1896 R2 was re-discovered by Koichi Itagaki and Hiroshi Kaneda. now named Comet 205P/2008 R6 (Giacobini)

Reports that the comet is currently in a outburst.
Period of 6.66 years

This is my 50th Comet that I have imaged using Slooh.





#50
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[TaviG.050801]

Nice job, Tony! How fitting, too, that your 50th observed comet is not just any comet, but one that was long-lost. We should have a Golden Comet Award for your achievement.

Itagaki sure is a busy man. I see his name frequently with supernovae discoveries.

Tavi
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[DerekH.040414]

Way cool Tony, thank you so much, you are sure dah man for comets.

Derek
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[GrahamA.080203]

Yeah - excellent, and as Tavi says great that #50 is a bit special!!

Altogether one in the eye for those who say Slooh is not real astronomy!

Graham
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[MarleenB.050308]

And a nice looking comet at that! I like the cool tail it sports! We can rely on Tony to bring us cool comets. Some day it might be nice to put them all into a slideshow!
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[TomM.040629]

Hey Tony that was great - however can you say stupdio - not you me!!
I had that image but could not place it - via JPL/ Nasa . I had the numbers but nothing was close then in the database. Yes any idoit can see it's a comet - don't take that personally. I just lost it that night always,always when a different object is seen in the sky - make a note of it and go later to prove what you thought you saw. Can you say Kick me? Nevermind.

[TonyF.070112]

you can find it via SSD NASA

just put in 205P in the search box
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi

On the NASA SSD site looks like the comet is broken up into 4 parts.
I will check some others sites to see if I can confirm that.


205P/Giacobini
205P/Giacobini-A
205P/Giacobini-B
205P/Giacobini-C


http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=c00205_0;orb=1;cov=0;log=0#orb
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[TonyF.070112]

I did find this picture

http://uk.geocities.com/martinmobberley/comets/205P_20080926_mpm.jpg
by Martin Mobberley

it looks like 4 pieces to me.

I wish we could use Dome 2 HM to get a better image of this comet
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[TonyF.070112]

yeah both AIU MPC and NASA site show 205P A B C

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08S47.html
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[TonyF.070112]

by gustavo muler.
can you A and B

http://astrosurf.com/nazaret/images/cometas/205/205-080923-J47.jpg
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[TomM.040629]

Thank you Tony. Those links + images are very much appreciated.

Tom

[DonaldB.080323]

Tony's snap of Giacobini inspired me, so I took a series of snaps of the comet yesterday and combined them into an animated GIF here:


Looks pretty cool to me.
Don

[TonyF.070112]

great animation Don, thanks for posting it.
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