A Decade of Comets
In the early 1980's, I wished to determine if comets were still being discovered as they were in the earlier days of astronomy. I conducted my own study of these comets, centered mainly on those found visually since I began searching for comets in 1975. As this study approached 100 pages, I saw how valuable this information would be to others and decided to make it available in book form. Entitled A Decade of Comets - A Study of the 33 Comets Found By Amateurs Between 1975 and 1984, the study was self-published in 1985. It has since been translated into a few foreign languages and has been helpful to a few of our successful comet hunters.
Download a Microsoft Word version of the book. (24.5 MB)
In Conclusion...
I continue to enjoy searching for comets and hope to do so for as long as I can. I have no idea how many comets will come my way. If none do, I will still enjoy searching for them. Life, including my comet work, has been good to me and no one is more thankful for that than me.
- Don Machholz
