April 2015 - Statistics
Database press release devoted to the statistics in April, 2015. 1432 observations were added during the last month to the database (+ 17.5 %). C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) has become the most popular comet again. 143 observations of this comet were added (+ 20.4 %). There were much less observations of comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) made in the year 2008 - 103 (+ 312 %).
Observations of April 2015
Observers
Neil Norman has become the most active observer - 35 observations (+15%)
| Observer | Visual observations |
|---|---|
| Neil Norman | 35 |
| Chris Wyatt | 22 |
| Paul Camilleri | 16 |
| Alexsandr Morozov | 13 |
| Piotr Guzik | 11 |
| Marek Biely | 11 |
| Marco Antonio Coelho Goiato | 10 |
| Darius Gasiūnas | 9 |
| Petr Mitrofanov | 7 |
| Artyom Novichonok | 7 |
| Alexander Semenov | 6 |
| Mark Watson | 5 |
| Alexandre Amorim | 3 |
| Salvador Aguirre | 3 |
In general, a lot of observers uploaded observations, which were made some years ago. Table of all observers, who reported their observations in April, 2015:
| Observer | Visual observations |
|---|---|
| Marco Antonio Coelho Goiato | 1032 |
| Piotr Guzik | 72 |
| Carl Hergenrother | 59 |
| Neil Norman | 36 |
| Danil Sidorko | 36 |
| Alan Hale | 30 |
| Artyom Novichonok | 23 |
| Paul Camilleri | 21 |
| Andrey Semenyuta | 19 |
| Werner Hasubick | 13 |
| Alexsandr Morozov | 13 |
| Chris Wyatt | 11 |
Yau can notice, that Marco Goiato added more, than thousand observations. It was done according Program of adding observer`s archives
Comets
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) has become the most observable comet - 143 observations (+27%); comet holds this title for past six months.
Table of comets.
| Comet | Visual observations |
|---|---|
| C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) | 143 |
| C/2007 W1 (Boattini) | 103 |
| C/2006 W3 (Christensen) | 54 |
| C/2008 A1 (McNaught) | 52 |
| 88P/Howell | 51 |
| 6P/d`Arrest | 48 |
| C/2009 P1 (Garradd) | 47 |
| 81P/Wild | 46 |
| 8P/Tuttle | 46 |
| C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) | 43 |
| 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann | 39 |
| C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) | 35 |
| C/2006 OF2 (Broughton) | 33 |
| C/2014 E2 (Jacques) | 33 |
| 103P/Hartley | 29 |
| C/2008 T2 (Cardinal) | 26 |
| 22P/Kopff | 25 |
| C/2007 T1 (McNaught) | 22 |
| 10P/Tempel | 22 |
| C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) | 22 |
| C/2015 G2 (MASTER) | 21 |
| C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) | 21 |
| C/2015 F3 (SWAN) | 19 |
| C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) | 18 |
| C/2015 F5 (SWAN-Xingming) | 18 |
| 46P/Wirtanen | 16 |
New observations during April:
