November 2, 2019 – ALPO Comet News for November 2019
November finds us in-between bright comets. C/2018 W2 (Africano) is now too faint for small aperture telescopes while C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) is at least a month away from becoming an easy object. Fortunately it will continue to brighten over the next few months and should provide a nice target for much of the first half of 2020. CCD imagers are encouraged to keep a detector on interstellar comet 2I/Borisov which will be around 15-16th magnitude this month.
Other comets brighter than 13th magnitude this month include 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 260P/McNaught, and C/2018 N2 (ASASSN). Fainter comets of interest include 289P/Blanpain and the aforementioned 2I/Borisov.
The monthly ALPO Comet News PDF can be found here. An edited version of this report is posted on the Cloudy Nights forum at (https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/682477-alpo-comet-news-for-november-2019/). Everyone is invited to join the discussion at our Cloudy Nights forum.
