C/2007 F1 (LONEOS)

C/2007 F1 ( LONEOS ) is a comet that was discovered on 19 March 2007 by automatic search program LONEOS. With its discovery in the constellation Leo, he had an apparent brightness of 19m.

By the end of May, he is still an extremely faint comet was photographed regularly thereafter observations were hardly possible because C/2007 F1 stayed until mid-September at the twilight sky at a small angular distance to the sun. Only in the last ten days of September LONEOS was retrieved. In early October turned out that its brightness was greater than predicted.

The comet passed through perihelion on 28 October 2007. On the days before and after the comet had an apparent magnitude of about 5m. However, of central European latitudes of the comet was observed at dusk difficult with the naked eye, because he stayed especially close to the horizon.