[BAA Comets] 67P observing campaign

[Nick James]

We had a good meeting at Winchester last Saturday and one of the topics 
of conversation was the amateur 67P observing campaign. I hope that as 
many comet observers as possible will sign up here:

http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/rosetta-science-blog/rosetta-ground-based-campaign-calling-all-amateur-astronomers

The campaign is working on a set of observing notes, a draft of which is 
on the BAA website here:

https://britastro.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2015April_67P_ObserversGuide_PYFv0.1_0.pdf

If you have any comments on these please let me know. I'm happy to feed 
them back and handle any questions that you might have. My talk from 
Saturday which mentions the campaign is online here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCF3uR-XiI0

The other talks from a very enjoyable meeting will be online shortly.

As of this morning 67P has been recovered following conjunction at 
around mag 16.8 by Maury, Soulier and Bosch. Observations are difficult 
at the moment since the comet is low in the morning twilight but things 
will improve as the elongation increases.

http://6888comete.free.fr/fr/image67PChuryumovGerasimenkoChile.htm

Nick.