206P/Barnard–Boattini

206P/Barnard-Boattini is the first comet that was discovered with the help of photography. This was the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard at night on October 13, 1892. According to this observation, the comet was lost and was given the provisional designation D/1892 T1. On 7 October 2008 the Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini succeeded in rediscovering the comet on photographs of the Mount Lemmon Survey.

Since its initial discovery, the comet had completed 20 rounds, while the Jupiter in the years 1922, 1934 and 2005 AE happens at a distance between 0.3 to 0.4. On 25 October 2008, he went through the perihelion of 1.1452 AU distance from the Sun, where he likes his maximum brightness of about 20.3 reached.

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