206P/206P/Barnard–Boattini

206P/Barnard–Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means. The American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard did so on the night of

Barnard 2) C/1891 F1 Barnard-Denning C/1891 T1 D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3) – First comet to be discovered by photography; recovered in late 2008 as 206P/Barnard-Boattini

C/2010 U3 (Boattini). He also accidentally recovered 206P/Barnard-Boattini from the Mount Lemmon Survey (also see lost comet). Asteroid 8925 Boattini is named

Emerson Barnard Barnard 2 or 177P/Barnard Barnard 3 or 206P/Barnard–Boattini Barnard (cyclecar) Barnard (lunar crater) Barnard (Martian crater) Barnard College

November 20, 1884, and is thought to have disintegrated. The last, 206P/Barnard-Boattini marked the beginning of a new era in cometary astronomy, as it was