Photo shows Retired astronomer Rob McNaught is pictured with a brightly coloured mural in Coonabarabran. The mural features Comet McNaught. Robert H McNaught can close his eyes and pinpoint the ...

Comets that get particularly close to the Sun can become spectacular. This is what happened with comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), which put on an incredible show for observers in the Southern ...

Comets that get particularly close to the Sun can become spectacular. This is what happened with comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), which put on an incredible show for observers in the Southern ...

It probably won’t be necessary to wait that long either. Superb events such as Comet McNaught, described by some observers as looking like “a fountain in the sky”, can happen with little ...

surpassing Comet McNaught in 2007. It did not quite reach the same peak, but did get brighter than a visual magnitude of -4.0[KB1] , earning it the title of the second brightest comet observed.

and surpass the brightness of comet Mcnaught, which passed by the sun in 2007. Comet Neowise, as seen in this image in Lake Mead in Nevada, dazzled in the night sky in 2020. James Marvin Phelps ...

The other comet was Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, and was the brightest comet in over 40 years; easily visible to the naked eye for ...

The cryovolcanic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, which will make its closest approach to Earth next year, has re-sprouted its distinctive "horns" after its second major eruption in four months.

Comet McNaught, officially cataloged as C/2009 R1, was discovered by Australian astronomer Robert McNaught last September using the 0.5-meter Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera.

There have been two decent naked-eye “Great Comets” in the past 25 years; Hale-Bopp in 1997 and Comet McNaught in 2007, which was largely seen only in the southern hemisphere. Yup, that’s ...

Comet McNaught, as imaged in 2006 from Victoria, Australia. The dust tail is white and diffuse (and ... More curved), while the far fainter ion tail is thin, narrow, blue, and points directly away ...