The following table gives a summary of the comets brighter than 16 mag, which were observed by members of the German Comet Section.
The maximum brightness of comets brighter than 10.0 mag is given with an accuracy of 0.1 mag, that of fainter comets with an accuracy of 0.5 mag. The maximum coma diameter is given with an accuracy of 0.1' for comae less than 1', with an accuracy of 0.5' for comae between 1' and 5' and with an accuracy of 1' for larger comae.
Designation | discovered | T | q [AU] | m_max | Coma ['] | FGK | |
C/2006 S3 (LONEOS) | Sep 19, 2006 | Apr 16, 2012 | 5.13 | 13.5 | 0.7 | C | |
C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) | Sep 21, 2010 | May 20, 2013 | 5.90 | 13.0 | 1.0 | V, C | |
C/2011 J2 (LINEAR) | May 04, 2011 | Dec 25, 2013 | 3.44 | 13.5 | 0.8 | C | |
C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) | Jun 06, 2011 | Mar 10, 2013 | 0.30 | 1.2 | 6 | V, C | |
C/2011 R1 (McNaught) | Sep 03, 2011 | Oct 19, 2012 | 2.08 | 12.0 | 1.5 | V, C | |
C/2012 B1 (PanSTARRS) | Jan 25, 2012 | Jul 23, 2013 | 2.10 | 15.0 | 0.3 | C | |
C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) | Mar 23, 2012 | Mar 24, 2013 | 0.73 | 4.4 | 12 | V, C | |
C/2012 J1 (Catalina) | May 13, 2012 | Dec 07, 2012 | 3.16 | 14.0 | 1.0 | C | |
C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS) | May 19, 2012 | Aug 27, 2014 | 1.05 | 14.0 | 0.8 | C | |
C/2012 K5 (LINEAR) | May 25, 2012 | Nov 28, 2012 | 1.14 | 8.3 | 5.5 | V, C | |
C/2012 L1 (LINEAR) | Jun 01, 2012 | Dec 25, 2012 | 2.26 | 15.0 | 0.7 | C | |
C/2012 L2 (LINEAR) | Jun 01, 2012 | May 09, 2013 | 1.51 | 10.5 | 3.5 | V, C | |
C/2012 S1 (ISON) | Sep 21, 2012 | Nov 28, 2013 | 0.01 | 4.0 | 8 | V, C | |
C/2012 S3 (PanSTARRS) | Sep 27, 2012 | Aug 31, 2013 | 2.31 | 15.0 | 0.4 | C | |
C/2012 T5 (Bressi) | Oct 14, 2012 | Feb 24, 2013 | 0.32 | 9.0 | 3.0 | C | |
C/2012 V2 (LINEAR) | Nov 05, 2012 | Aug 16, 2013 | 1.45 | 8.7 | 3.5 | C | |
C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) | Dec 08, 2012 | Feb 21, 2014 | 1.60 | 7.8 | 13 | V, C | |
C/2013 E2 (Iwamoto) | Mar 10, 2013 | Mar 09, 2013 | 1.41 | 11.0 | 2.0 | C | |
C/2013 J2 (McNaught) | May 08, 2013 | Aug 22, 2013 | 2.15 | 13.0 | 0.7 | V, C | |
C/2013 N4 (Borisov) | Jul 08, 2013 | Aug 21, 2013 | 1.21 | 11.0 | 3.0 | C | |
C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) | Sep 07, 2013 | Dec 22, 2013 | 0.81 | 5.0 | 16 | V, C | |
C/2013 V1 (Boattini) | Nov 04, 2013 | Apr 21, 2014 | 1.66 | 14.0 | 0.7 | V, C | |
C/2013 V3 (Nevski) | Nov 06, 2013 | Oct 29, 2013 | 1.37 | 8.7 | 8 | V, C | |
2P/Encke | - | Nov 21, 2013 | 0.34 | 7.4 | 9 | V, C | |
26P/Grigg-Skjellerup | - | Jul 06, 2013 | 1.09 | 13.0 | 1.0 | C | |
52P/Harrington-Abell | - | Mar 07, 2014 | 1.77 | 15.5 | 0.6 | C | |
63P/Wild | - | Apr 10, 2013 | 1.95 | 12.0 | 1.5 | V, C | |
98P/Takamizawa | - | Aug 05, 2013 | 1.67 | 15.5 | 0.5 | C | |
117P/Helin-Roman-Alu | - | Mar 27, 2014 | 3.06 | 14.5 | 0.7 | C | |
154P/Brewington | - | Dec 12, 2013 | 1.61 | 10.5 | 7 | V, C | |
260P/McNaught | - | Sep 12, 2012 | 2.07 | 14.5 | 0.8 | C | |
262P/McNaught-Russell | - | Dec 04, 2012 | 1.28 | 11.0 | 4.0 | V, C | |
273P/Pons-Gambart | - | Dec 19, 2012 | 0.81 | 10.0 | 3.0 | V, C | |
290P/Jäger | - | Mar 12, 2014 | 2.16 | 12.5 | 1.5 | V, C |
Andreas Kammerer