C/1882 R1-B (Great September comet)

COMETComet

ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIHELION 0.008 AU · ECCENTRICITY 1.000

[

OVERVIEW

] COMET

C/1882 R1-B (Great September comet) is a comet. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 83.36 .

WHAT IT IS: Comet
HOW FAR: 83.36
ONE ORBIT TAKES: 761

[

OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see C/1882 R1-B (Great September comet) for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

WHERE IT IS NOW

[

CATALOG DATA

] 11 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbital period: 761.1 ±9600
Eccentricity
Inclination: 142.02 ±0.02
Longitude of ascending node: 347.69 ±0.067
Argument of perihelion: 69.61 ±0.07
Mean anomaly: 0.12
Element epoch: 2408798.5000
Perihelion passage: 2408706.2200
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit: 0.516
Orbit class: COM

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

First observed: 1882-10-19

[

ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS

Comet 1882 R1-B
Comet C/1882 R1-B (Great September comet)

[

CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT

SpaceCatalog. C/1882 R1-B (Great September comet) [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/c-1882-r1-b-great-september-comet

BIBTEX

@misc{spacecatalog_c-1882-r1-b-great-september-comet,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{C/1882 R1-B (Great September comet)}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/c-1882-r1-b-great-september-comet},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

[