Its going well Outback, we'll it be better if I actually found something!
Its been 2.5 years now since my last one and have stepped it up a little as well. With a GOTO mount and cooled CCD I'm covering a lot more sky in one night than I was in 2007. Anyway comets that amateurs can discover are few and far between, so its just a matter of being patient. Next week I should be recieving a hyperstar which will convert my C8 into a fast wide angle scope which should step things up yet another notch. I hope to cover a lot of sky down to mag 18 or so - I hope to find at least one comet a year
Interesting, I see some of the new professional surveys are coming up against problems. The Pan starrs project which has the 1.4 Gigapixel camera in Hawaii is having teething problems, apparently 15% of the sensor area is dead and its too expensive to replace!
Terry