Comments on: The Comet Hunters

The Comet Hunters

spock — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:10:23 -0800

The Story of a Comet Hunter (see also his web page which contains a link to the story of his discover of Comet Seki-Lines in 1962). Visual comet hunting has a long and intriguing history. Today visual hunters are adapting their ways to make visual discoveries in an age of automated searches. The amateur can still win. Now, ANYONE can discover a comet(?) Or perhaps 1000. A Guide for SOHO Comet Hunters. More SOHO and Sungrazing Comet Links. [Previously]

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:46:17 -0800

Nifty post, spock. One of the cooler comet-related things I've seen online is SOHO-6 evaporating in the sun's atmosphere.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:14:10 -0800

But you don't get your name on a SOHO comet. It's just "Comet SOHO" followed by a number. Of course, the way things are going, they'd have names like "Biesecker 1" through "Biesecker 47" and so on, so maybe it doesn't matter.