Comet 252P Linear, brightening rapidly!!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Magnificent!

252P LINEAR for 11 March 2016.

Measured off image I get a coma diameter of 23 arc minutes, what a dynamic comet!

It has brightened from around mag 10 on the 7th of March to Mag 7 on the 11th.
Here's two images from the 10 and11th, you can see the increase in the come diameter.

Cheers,

Justin.

[algwat]

Yay, comet images after such a along time...
Now if only the clouds would move from Melbourne...

look good, no ION tail as yet ?

kind regards, Alan.

[doppler]

Looks interesting, it's close to earth and close to perihelion and brighter than predicted.

[Tony_]

Great image Justin - especially considering that it is moving at 10 degrees / day!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Thanks Alan!
No reports of any Ion tail.



Yes, may get to mag 5 if it keeps brightening at this rate.



Thanks Tony!

Fast mover alright, only be 5.4 millon kms from earth on the 22nd of march.

Cheers,

Justin.