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 However, the observations had not been archived systematically prior to 1987.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	2.8	25	V, P
1984f	C/1984 K1	Shoemaker	May 27, 1984	Sep 04, 1985	2.70	12.5	0.8	P
1985l	C/1985 R1	Hartley-Good	Sep 11, 1985	Dec 09, 1985	0.69	8.0	3.0	V
1985m	C/1985 T1	Thiele	Oct 09, 1985	Dec 19, 1985	1.32	9.8	3.0	V, P
1985n	85P	P/Boethin	Nov 01, 1985	Jan 16, 1986	1.11	8.0	6	V, P
1985q	46P	P/Wirtanen	Nov 13, 1985	Mar 19, 1986	1.08	9.5	1.5	V, P
1986a	155P	P/Shoemaker 3	Jan 10, 1986	Dec 18, 1985	1.79	13.0	0.8	P
1986d	105P	P/Singer Brewster	May 03, 1986	Jun 08, 1986	1.96	14.0	1.5	P
1986e	96P	P/Machholz	May 12, 1986	Apr 23, 1986	0.13	10.0	2.5	V, P
1986l	C/1986 P1	Wilson	Aug 05, 1986	Apr 20, 1987	1.20	10.5	3.0	V, P
1986n	C/1986 V1	Sorrells	Nov 01, 1986	Mar 09, 1987	1.72	9.1	5	V, P
1986o	112P	P/Urata-Niijima	Nov 03, 1986	Nov 22, 1986	1.45	13.5	2.0	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