October 4, 2019 – ALPO Comet News for October 2019
I’m mixing things up a bit this month. The monthly ALPO Comet News are now be distributed as PDFs (link to this month’s PDF). A shorter version of this report is also posted on the Cloudy Nights forum. If you’d like to join in the discussion, I encourage you to visit our Cloudy Nights forum.
C/2018 W2 (Africano) starts the month around magnitude 8.5 though it will rapidly fade as the month progresses. C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) will still be 11th magnitude at the end of September but should replace Africano as the brightest observable comet. CCD observers can look forward to observing the first confirmed interstellar comet, 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov). Other comets observable this month at brighter than 12th magnitude include 68P/Klemola, 260P/McNaught, and C/2018 N2 (ASASSN).
