who discovered Mcnaught comet?

Answer 1

R. H. McNaught (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on CCD images obtained with the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope on 2006 August 7.51. The images had been obtained as part of the Siding Spring Survey. He described the comet as magnitude 17.3, with a faint coma 20 arc seconds across in moonlight.


http://cometography.com/lcomets/2006p1.html


http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html


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Answer 2

Australian astronomer Robert McNaught discovered the comet on Aug 7th 2006,using the Uppsala Schmidt telescope.

Answer 3

robert mcnaught discoverd the comet in 2006