[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi all,

Thanks for the comments

Originally Posted by CometGuy

Hi Justin,

Well done!

When are you going to start searching for comet's with this setup ?

Terry

Hi Terry,
I'm still sorting out the best method of hunting with my setup, but plan to start seriously in November.
I won't have the level of sophistication of your setup, so my thinking is with the 1.5 degree by 1.0 degree field I have is to overlap so it comes back to 1.0 by .75. In 4 hours I hope to cover 24 by 1.5 degrees, using 5 x 2 minute exposures for each field at ISO 1600. Weather permitting repeat this over three nights, moving down in declination.
The next problem is do I try and blink frames, or stack them and look for the tell tale streak in the image.
Any idea's this?
I also plan to do some visual sweeping, as I understand a few brighter comets ahve gone begging in recent years.
It's pretty easy to cover 120 degrees by 20 in 2 hours, Iv'e kept the old comet hunter up to scratch figuring to give it another go.

Originally Posted by Liz

I believe Justin already has one comet named for him.

Yep, 1997 O1, and also 1999 A1, not many remember A1 as it was rather faint and disintegrated.

Cheers,

Justin.