The following table gives a summary of the comets brighter than 16 mag, which were observed by members of and archived by the German Comet Section. However, the observations had not been archived systematically prior to 1987. Thus the number of the comets actually observed by members of the German Comet Section could have been greater than shown in the table.

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.

old Design.	new Design.	Comet's Name	discovered	T	q [AU]	m_max	Coma [']	FGK
1982i	1P	P/Halley	Oct 16, 1982	Feb 09, 1986	0.59	4.7	25	V, P
1984e	21P	P/Giacobini-Zinner	Apr 03, 1984	Sep 05, 1985	1.03	7.5	8	V, P
1984k	49P	P/Arend-Rigaux	Aug 07, 1984	Dec 01, 1984	1.45	12.0	1.5	P
1984p	62P	P/Tsuchinshan 1	Sep 04, 1984	Jan 02, 1985	1.51	10.5	3.5	P
1984t	C/1984 V1	Levy-Rudenko	Dec 14, 1984	Dec 14, 1984	0.92	7.6	7	V, P
1985g	84P	P/Giclas	Jun 22, 1985	Oct 01, 1985	1.84	13.5	0.8	P
1985l	C/1985 R1	Hartley-Good	Sep 11, 1985	Dec 09, 1985	0.69	6.8	13	V, P
1985m	C/1985 T1	Thiele	Oct 09, 1985	Dec 19, 1985	1.32	7.5	12	V, P
1985n	85P	P/Boethin	Nov 01, 1985	Jan 16, 1986	1.11	8.0	5	V, P
1985p	108P	P/Ciffreo	Nov 08, 1985	Oct 30, 1985	1.70	11.5	2.0	V, P

Explanation

• discovered = Date of Discovery
• T = Date of Perihelion
• q [AU] = Perihelion Distance in AU
• m_max = maximum brightness observed in the course of the year
• Coma ['] = maximum coma diameter (in arcminutes) observed in the course of the year
• FGK = Observation Method used by the members of the German Comet Section (V = visual observation, P = Photography, C = CCD / Digital Camera)

Andreas Kammerer