Courtesy from Article:�Comet SWAN Could Soon Grace Our Skies� By James Maynard - May 16th 2020 https://medium.com/the-cosmic-companion/comet-swan-could-soon-grace-our-skies-7b59751e9909
C/2020 F8 (SWAN) (or Comet SWAN) is, just now, starting to be visible to viewers under dark skies without the use of binoculars or a telescope. Oddly, this icy remnant from the outer solar system was discovered by an amateur scientist, looking in data from an instrument not meant to find comets. It takes SWAN to know SWAN Comet SWAN was first seen by amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo in data recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), an instrument designed to study the Sun.