Hunting and Imaging Comets

• Main Author: Mobberley, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

Of all the objects visible in the night sky, it is the brightest comets that have most fascinated amateur astronomers and alarmed the human population. No other objects can stretch as far across the sky as the tail of a truly great comet, or be as easily visible as a zero-magnitude ‘broom star.’ In...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Comets, Their Orbits, and Where They Hide!
• Great Comet Discoveries Throughout History
• Professional 21st Century Comet Hunters
• Amateur 21st Century Comet Hunters
• Finding the Next Hale-Bopp with Your Gear
• Comets That Have Been Missed by the Pros
• Recovering Returning Periodic Comets
• Discovering Comets Using SOHO
• Following the NEOS that Might Become Comets
• Monitoring Outbursting Comets
• Comet Imaging Techniques
• Lenses, Telescopes, Astrographs, and Mountings
• Imaging Comets Remotely and via the Internet
• Comet Photometry
• A Few of the World's Keenest Comet Imagers
• Comet Resources
• Index.