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.

old Design.	new Design.	Comet's Name	discovered	T	q [AU]	m_max	Coma [']	FGK
1988r	C/1988 Y1	Yanaka	Dec 29, 1988	Dec 11, 1988	0.43	9.0	2.5	V, P
1989a	C/1989 A1	Yanaka	Jan 01, 1989	Oct 31, 1988	1.89	10.5	2.5	V, P
1989b	111P	P/Helin-Roman-Crockett	Jan 02, 1989	Sep 13, 1988	3.47	14.0	1.0	P
1989e	C/1989 A5	Shoemaker	Jan 13, 1989	Feb 26, 1989	2.64	13.5	1.0	V, P
1989j	121P	P/Shoemaker-Holt 2	Mar 09, 1989	Aug 07, 1988	2.64	13.5	0.8	P
1989n	78P	P/Gehrels 2	Jun 14, 1989	Nov 03, 1989	2.35	13.5	0.7	P
1989o	23P	P/Brorsen-Metcalf	Jul 04, 1989	Sep 11, 1989	0.48	5.6	12	V, P
1989p	93P	P/Lovas 1	Jul 07, 1989	Oct 10, 1989	1.68	13.0	0.8	P
1989r	C/1989 Q1	Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko	Aug 25, 1989	Nov 11, 1989	0.64	5.7	8	V, P
1989s	C/1989 R1	Helin-Roman	Sep 04, 1989	Aug 20, 1989	1.32	13.0	1.5	V, P
1989v	C/1989 T1	Helin-Roman-Alu	Oct 01, 1989	Dec 15, 1989	1.05	9.8	4.5	V, P
1989a1	C/1989 W1	Aarseth-Brewington	Nov 16, 1989	Dec 27, 1989	0.30	3.0	5.0	V, P
1989e1	C/1989 Y1	Skorichenko-George	Dec 18, 1989	Apr 11, 1990	1.57	8.7	3.0	V, P
	29P	P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1	-	Sep 12, 1989	5.76	12.5	1.0	V, P
	65P	P/Gunn	-	Sep 24, 1989	2.47	12.5	1.0	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