An image taken on Sept 2 from the Perth Observatory. m1=10.1 with 2’ coma. The Perth Observatory took a long series of images of this interesting comet that wasn’t well observed.

C/1959 Y1 imaged at Perth Observatory on 31st March 1960 with the 33cm astrographic refractor. m1=5.0 with a 3.5' and 0.5 deg tail in PA 240 deg.

C/1976 D2 imaged from Perth Observatory on 23rd November 1976 using 33cm astrographic refractor. m1=16.3 with a 0.3' coma.

This is image of only discovery made from Perth Obs as reported on IAUC 3393. It actually turned out to be 73P/S-W, first time it was seen since 1930. Image taken on Aug 13th 1979. It was quite bright at mag 11.3 with a 4.8' tail in PA 108 deg

Hi Maik, here's an image of this comet from the Perth Observatory on Aug 25th 1981. I've performed photometry and m1=13.6 with a 0.9' coma. Apologies for the marker pens on the scanned image! Regards Andrew Pearce.