Comet Elenin may not be as glorious as Comet Hale-Bopp, but it might possibly turn into one of the best and easiest viewed comets of the year 2011! Discovered December 10, 2010, Comet Elenin (also known as C/2010 X1 (Elenin) by Astronomers) showed up as a very faint "speck" of fuzzy haze detected on a CCD image acquired by Leonid Elenin of Moscow, by utilising a remotely controlled telescope at the ISON-NM Observatory (H15). Read more
Comet C/2010 X1 (ELENIN) was discovered on the 10th December 2010, by L. Elenin at the ISON-NM Observatory, Mayhill. The orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 1st April, 2010, at a distance of 5.15 AU from the Sun.