Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Large Angle and Spectrometic Coronagraph (LASCO) Instrument Photometry of Kreutz Family Sungrazing Comets

This data set contains aperture photometry of Kreutz sungrazing comets that were observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Large Angle and Spectrometic Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument from 1996-2005. Apparent magnitude and the error in the magnitude due to photon statistics are given for circular apertures ranging from 1,2,3...10 pixels in radius. All images were taken either with the coronagraph C2 telescope (11.9 arcsec/pixel) or the coronagraph C3 telescope (56 arcsec/pixel). The reduced subimages from which this photometry was calculated are archived with Planetary Data System (Knight, M.M., SOHO LASCO COMET IMAGES V1.0, SOHO-C-LASCO-4-COMETIMAGES-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2008, doi:10.26007/6C3R-SD58). Scientific analysis of this photometry was published in (Knight et al. Photometric Study of the Kreutz Comets Observed by SOHO from 1996 to 2005, AJ, 139, 3, 2010, doi: 10.1088/0004-6256/139/3/926).