I realized I had sketched the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 when it was in Lyra, thus capturing, by pencil, an image paralleling the photograph I took yesterday. So, I prepended that observation to that page–it is now the first observation of the three comet observatoins on […]

Last may, I observed comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 at its closest approach to Earth. At its brightest, it showed up in binoculars on a reasonably-dark night. The image reminded me of an angel–the tail fanned out like a robe or gown. The link above gives my observation reports for two observations of Fragment […]