David Levy's Guide To Observing And Discovering Comets

David Levy has held a lifelong passion for comets and is one of the mostsuccessful comet discoverers in history. In this book he describes theobserving techniqu... » 

David Levy has held a lifelong passion for comets and is one of the mostsuccessful comet discoverers in history. In this book he describes theobserving techniques that have been developed over the years from visualobservations and searching to photography through to electronic chargecoupled devices CCDs. He combines the history of comet hunting with thelatest techniques showing how our understanding of comets has evolved overtime. This practical handbook is suitable for amateur astronomers from thosewho are casually interested in comets and how to observe them to those whowant to begin and expand an observing program of their own. Drawing widely fromhis own extensive experience Levy describes how enthusiastic amateurs canobserve comets and try to make new discoveries themselves. «