Comet Hunting Article

[martinastro]

To celebrate more than 1000 hours of visual comet hunting I have put together a short article as a 'primer' for anyone who is interested in taking on their own comet hunting programme. The article can also be found in a future edition of Astronomy Ireland's 'Astronomy & Space Magazine' (possibly the August edition) but for everyone else I have included it on my web site below...

www.nightskyhunter.com/Comet%20Hunting%20-%20A%20Primer.html

Thanks for your time and I hope some of you will find it interesting.

[markt]

Very interesting article Martin, thanks for sharing it with us all

Congratulations on your 1000 hour milestone!

*saves link in favourites*

Lets hope we are rewared with a nice view of Linear at some point this weekend. I stayed up all last night until dawn in the hope of clear skies to no avail, now i've got up and it's morning and it's wall to wall sunshine! Typical!

[martinastro]

Thanks for the feedback Mark and I am glad you like it. I was clouded out last night for LINEAR but I did find a new Kreutz sungrazer on the SOHO LASCO C3 images which was quite exciting. I'm hoping for another look at LINEAR tonight.

Clear skies and best of luck Mark.