3towers Observatory Comet Images

All images are oriented with the North at the top and the West to the right.

Comet	Official Designation	3towers Observatory Images	Comments
Comet Kudo-Fujikawa	C/2002 X5	Image obtained at the 3towers Observatory 31 December 02 ~13:00 UT.	This image is a composite of 60-second red (R), 60-second green (V), 90-secopnd blue (B), and 60-second clear (CL) exposures added together to make a tri-color CCD image. It was obtained with a 12-inch LX 200 telescope and an Apogee AP7 CCD camera with an Isis FW 1 filter wheel.
Comet Lemmon	C/2025 A6		Morning of Thursday October 2, 2025
Comet Lemmon	C/2025 A6		Morning of Thursday October 16, 2025
Comet Lemmon	C/2025 A6		Evening of Sunday October 19, 2025
Comet Lemmon	C/2025 A6		Evening of Sunday October 26, 2025
Comet Leonard on Wednesday December 15, 2021	C/2021 A1
Comet Leonard on Thursday December 16, 2021	C/2021 A1
Comet Leonard on Monday December 20, 2021	C/2021 A1
Comet Linear on April 8, 2001	C/2001 A2
Comet Linear on 10-11 November 2001	C/2000 WM1
Comet Linear on 23 March 2002 at 12:00 hrs UT	C/2000 WM1		This image is a composite of 30-second red (R), 30-second green (V), 60-second blue (B), and 60-second clear (CL) exposures added together to make a tri-color CCD image. It was obtained with a 12-inch LX 200 telescope and an Apogee AP7 CCD camera with an Isis FW 1 filter wheel.
Comet Linear on 2 April 2016	252P/Linear		This periodic comet has the same orbit as P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS). 252/P is probably much larger and is certainly brighter than BA14 which may have broken off the original parent comet.

Comet Linear (2012 X1)	C/2012 X1	Comets ISON (C/2012 S1), Linear (2012 X1), Lovejoy (C/2013 R1). and Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2)

Lovejoy	C/2017 E4		6 April 2017
Machholtz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto	C/2018 V1		17 November 2018
Comet McNaught-Hartley	C/1999 T-1		14 January 2001 6 February 2001
Comet Neat on January 19, 2003 at ~3:00 hrs UT	C/2002 V1		This image is a composite of 60-second red (R), 60-second green (V), two 60-second blue (B), and 60-second Open exposures added together to make a tri-color CCD image. It was obtained with a 12-inch LX 200 telescope and an Apogee AP7 CCD camera with an Isis FW 1 filter wheel.
Comet Neat (C/2001 Q4) 12 May 2004	C/2001 Q4		This image was obtained in Tucson, Arizona, in partially cloudy skies with a Nikon D100 digital camera and a 135mm f/3.5 lens, 5-second exposure. The image is not oriented with the north to the top.
Comet NEOWISE	C/2020 F3		Comet NEOWISE tail rising over the Calalina Mountains on the morning of Thursday July 9, 2020.
Comet NEOWISE	C/2020 F3		Comet NEOWISE rising over the Calalina Mountains on the morning of Thursday July 9, 2020.
Comet NEOWISE	C/2020 F3		Comet NEOWISE above the Catalina Mountains on the morning of Thursday July 9, 2020.
Comet NEOWISE	C/2020 F3		Comet NEOWISE above the Catalina Mountains on the morning of Thursday July 9, 2020.
Comet NEOWISE	C/2020 F3		Comet NEOWISE on the evening of Tuesday July 14, 2020. C-11 HyperStar image with Canon 7D Mark II camera.
Comet NEOWISE	C/2020 F3		Comet NEOWISE on the evening of Monday July 20, 2020. The comet was visible only intermittently through thick clouds. Two nearby stars are labeled with their magnitudes for comparison with the comet.
Comet Nevski on November 18, 2013 at 5:00 hrs MST	C/2013 V3		The bright star at the top of the image is xi Leonis at magnitude 4.96.
Comet Nishimura	C/2023 P1		Comet Nishimura at ~ 11;30 UT Sunday September 3, 2023.
Comet Olbers	13P/Olbers		May 1, 2024
Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) on the evening of March 27, 2016	P/2016 BA14		This periodic comet has the same orbit as 252P/Linear, which is probably much larger and is certainly brighter than BA14 which may have broken off the original parent comet.
Comet PANSTARRS March 12, 2013	C/2011 L4		There is a one day old crescent Moon.
Comet PANSTARRS June 20, 2014	C/2014 K1
Comet PANSTARRS November 6, 2015	C/2014 S2		The comet was circumpolar and near Kochab in Ursa Minor.
PANSTARRS	C/2015 ER61		6 April 2017 11:10 hours UT
PANSTARRS	C/2016 M1		10 June 2018 07:32 hours UT
PANSTARRS	C/2017 K2		1 August 2022
Pons-Brooks	12P/Pons-Brooks		30 March 2024
Comet Schaumasse	24P/Schaumasse		The comet is very faint and is marked with a "^". This image was obtained on 24 January 2001. It consists of eleven 120 second exposures added together.
Comet Schwassmann-Wachman 3 Fragment B - 28 April 2006	73P
Comet Schwassmann-Wachman 3 Fragment C - 28 April 2006	73P		60-second exposure through a Clear filter.
Comet Schwassmann-Wachman 3 Fragment C - 28 April 2006	73P		The comet was moving so fast that the individual color images show shift of the comet position between the Red (R), Green (V), and Blue (B) exposures.
Comet Siding Spring on October 14, 2014	C/2013 A1
Comet Siding Spring on October 16, 2014	C/2013 A1
Comet Snyder-Murakami on 18 March 2002 at 11:30 hrs UT	C/2002 E2
Comet Swan	C/2025 F2		12 April 2025
Comet Swan	C/2025 R2		1 October 2025
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas	C/2023 A3		12 October 2024. Canon 100 mm f/6.3 lens
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas	C/2023 A3		12 October 2024. Canon 400 mm f/7.1 lens
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas	C/2023 A3		13 October 2024. Canon 100 mm f/7.1 lens
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas	C/2023 A3		15 October 2024. Canon 100 mm f/11 lens
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas	C/2023		13 October 2024. Celestron 14 f/11 telescope, TeleVue Panoptic 41 mm eyepiece (95x) iPhone 14, 5-second exposure
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas	C/2023 A3		15 October 2024. Celestron 14 f/11 telescope, TeleVue Panoptic 41 mm eyepiece (95x) iPhone 14, 5-second exposure
Comet Tuttle-Giacobini-Kreshak on 3 April 2017 04:00 hrs UT	41P
Comet Utsunomiya on 23 March 2002 at 12:00 hrs UT	C/2002 F1
Comet Utsunomiya-Jones	C/2000 W1		14 January 2001
Comet Wirtanen	46/P Wirtanen		8 December 2018 12 December 2018
Comet ZTF	C/2022 E3		25 February 2023