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Sixteen Bright Comets Comet Hyakutake
and Comet Hale-Bopp through Great Comet McNaught and Outbursting Comet Holmes 1995-2007 (This is by far a record number of
naked-eye visible comets for a 12-year span. This particular span is marked by
Jupiter's 12 year cycle through the 12 constellations of the zodiac beginning
in the Golden Gate of Heaven on the winter solstice of 1995 unto the same location in 2007.) Listed in order of month and year of brightest
magnitude along with signs, decans and asterisms during their naked eye
visibility Hyakutake: 3/1996, mg 0, Libra, Bootes, Draco, Perseus, Taurus-Aries * http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/1996B2/1996B2.html Hale-Bopp: 4/1997, mg 1, Ophiuchus,
Aquila, Andromeda, Perseus, Taurus, Orion, Argo * http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/1995O1/1995O1.html SOHO 1998 J1: 5/1998, mg 1, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Orion, Canis Major, Argo http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/1998J1/1998J1.html LINEAR C/2001 A2: 6/2001, mg 4, Lepus, Eridanus, Cetus, Pisces, Pegasus http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2001A2/2001A2.html LINEAR C/2000 WM 1: 1/2002 , mg 2, Sagittarius, Aquila, Hercules http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2000WM1/2000WM1.html IKEYA-ZHANG: 3/2002, mg 3, Pisces, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Draco-head, Hercules-foot http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/0153P/2002C1.html UTSUNOMIYA: 4/2002, mg 4, Pegasus, Andromeda, Pisces, Triangulum, Taurus http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2002F1/2002F1.html NEAT C/2002 V1: 2/2003, mg 1, Pisces, Aquarius http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2002V1/2002V1.html BRADFIELD: 4/2004, mg 2, Pisces, Andromeda http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2004F4/2004F4.html LINEAR C/2002 T7: 4/2004, mg 3, Pisces, Cetus, Eridanus, Lepus, Canis Major http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2002T7/2002T7.html NEAT C/2001 Q4: 5/2004, mg 3, Canis Major, Cancer, Ursa Major http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2001Q4/2001Q4.html MACHHOLZ C/2004 Q2: 1/2005 mg 3.5, Eridanus, Taurus, Perseus http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2004Q2/2004Q2.html SWAN C/2006 M4: 10/2006 mg 4.5 (outburst), Cornea Borealis http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006M4/2006M4.html McNAUGHT C/2006
P1:
1/2007 mg 5.5 (Great Comet), Aquila/Ophiuchus, Sagittarius http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006P1/2006P1.html http://cometography.com/lcomets/2006p1.html 96/P MANCHHOLZ: 4/2007, mg 3, Pisces, Pegasus http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/0096P/2007.html HOLMES: 10/2007, mg 2, Perseus, Auriga, Gemini http://aerith.net/comet/catalog/0017P/2007.html *The paths of Comet
Hyakutake and Comet Hale-Bopp both crossed one year apart on the same dates
of April 11, 96 & 97, respectively, within Perseus exactly in the
decapitated head named "Rosh Satan, Agol, Cuput Meduse, or the head of Satan"
Then Comet Holmes, which ended this 12 year series, went into outburst in Perseus
moving from obscurity at 16 mg to naked eye brightness at 2 mg in one day.
Great
Comet McNaught and the Golden
Gate of Heaven A primary
source for symbolic astral meanings from ancient languages
by Frances Rolleston; London: See
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