Welcome!

[Helen]

Welcome to the Hairy Astronomers Club!  Sorry, the Hairy Star (Comet) Club ? 

This is the place to be if you fancy contributing to science by observing, analysing and reporting comet positions and brightness.  We'll be developing guides and tutorials in conjunction with some BAA colleagues, to build competence and consistency.  That way the results should be useful to researchers as they try to understand better the enigmas that are comets.

We'll be learning together, which should be fun!  And ultimately our contribution may be cited in research (hopefully in mine!!).

Over the coming year or so we expect good targets to be comets 46P, 29P, 17P and then 67P (Rosetta's comet).  We'll put up details of where the comets will be when, and what observations will be most useful.  We can then also share observations and start building combined light curves ? 

Exciting times ahead ?

Helen