206P/Barnard–Boattini

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206P/Barnard–Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means. First observed by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892, it was subsequently lost for 116 years until it was rediscovered by Andrea Boattini in 2008.

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Image: Edward Emerson Barnard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.