Comets and Asteroids

  (317) Roxane satellite named Olympia The first numbered satellite of asteroid (317) Roxane was recently named Olympias by the Working Grou...

Comet 133P/Elst-Pizzaro photographed in a 10-minute R-filter exposure obtained on August 23, 1996 with the 1.5-m Danish telescope at La Si...

Comet 27P/Crommelin photographed by  Michael J.S. Belton on March 28, 1984 at 03:19 UT at Kitt Peak National Observatory with a 0.9 meter...

Comet 22P/Kopff imaged in the infrared at 8.28 micron wavelength with the Spirit III instrument on the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)...

Free online observing session Virtual Telescope project January 25 Tuesday, January 25 - Gianluca Masi introduces a new PlaneWave 17"...

240P/NEAT Originally uploaded by cbellh47 Comet 240P/NEAT on morning of November 8, 2010 with long curved dust tail.

Comet Hartley 2 was discovered on March 15, 1986 by Malcolm Hartley at the U. K. Schmidt Telescope Unit, Siding Spring Observatory, New Sout...