On the morning of 13 November 1974,
John Caister Bennett discovered his second comet as a diffuse 9th-magnitude object in the constellation
Hydra using a
refractor from
Pretoria, South Africa. He had spent a total of 482 hours searching for a new comet since his
first discovery in 1969. At the time, the comet had no discernible
coma nor
tail, however Bennett was of the opinion it experienced an outburst lasting about five days just before discovery == References ==