[BAA Comets] Low-elongation search project / Kreutz group comet

[Nick James]

Hi Roger,

> I was thinking of something along the lines of the supernovae search program whereby
> observers (in this case societies) are allocated specific areas of sky to search for
> comets.
Personally, I think that allocating specific search areas to observers 
is doomed to failure. TA tried this with the nova/SN search program but 
people with the motivation to search for objects do not want to be 
restricted to particular areas or galaxies.

By all means give guidance on the best areas to search, Graham's Kreutz 
tool as mentioned by Richard is a good example of this, but I don't 
think directing people to search fixed areas will work.

We can also help by providing rapid feedback and logging of search 
fields. The BAA website is about to undergo a revolutionary change and 
we can drive it towards being a much more useful resource for the 
observer. Denis Buczynski pointed out this site:

http://comet.observations.free.fr/all-comets-table.php

and we should certainly be able to do something similar for our 
observers/searchers.

Nick.