Comet Hunting For The Masses

khendron writes "In this article in Wired the most awesome past time is described. Comet Hunting. On you computer. No more cold nights outside with the telescope. Sit back with a cola, fire up the broadband, and start looking." From the article: "Amateurs looking at the SOHO images on the Web have found 76 percent of the 428 new comets that have turned up in SOHO images. Of the 31 people who have discovered comets, 21 of them are amateurs. They come from 10 different countries, including Australia, Great Britain, Germany and China. "

Comments

A bit pointless

[TheMaccLads]

Sure, you discover comets. But these are tiny, and, as the article says, will evaporate as they get close to the sun. There's no new science. There's no great contribution to the knowledge of mankind.

They're just clogging up the internet and stopping you from downloading ISO images of your favourite distrobution.

To that father of 3 kids in the UK: What a waste of energy. Go and spend some more time with your kids!

To the rest of you: Leave the bandwidth for others!