Synopses & Reviews
Halley's comet is coming...
On October 16, 1982, graduate students David C. Jewitt and G. Edward Danielson of the California Institute of Technology led a team of astronomers using an ultrasensitive charge-coupled device at the prime focus of the great 200" reflector at Mount Palomar Observatory. They thus became the first to recover Halley's comet. Halley's is now oficialy designated 1982i.
On the mornings of September 22nd and 26th, 1984, amateur astronomer and comet hunter Tsutomu Seki photographed Halley's comet with his 24" telescope.
Who will be the first to see it through a telescope? And who will be first to see it with the naked eye? The hunt is on...