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Originally Posted by Pharian
Just curious, did you ever find a comet?!  |
Ha! No.
I started searching in 1976 - 40 years ago. And though there have been some very quiet periods, I have been looking for a good chunk of that time. My closest chance came in 2007 when I narrowly missed (by arc minutes) discovering C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy) a day or so before Terry did so up in Queensland.
Comet hunting is a repetitive process that can carry on for decades without success.Japanese comet hunter, Shigehisa Fujisawa was 24 years between drinks but kept up the hunting and was rewarded. I am not giving up but am changing my interests a bit. I will still do some searching but perhaps not as much with a different rig.
Richard