Tables of Contents for David H. Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets

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Preface

Part I. Why Observe Comets?: 1. Of history, superstition, magic, and science

2. Comet science progresses

Part II. Discovering Comets: 3. Comet searching begins

4. Tails and trails

5. Comet searching in the twentieth century

6. How I search for comets

7. Searching for comets photographically

8. Searching for comets with CCDs

9. Comet hunting by reading

10. Hunting for sungrazers over the Internet

11. What to do when you think you've found a comet

Part III. A New Way of Looking at Comets: 12. When comets hit planets

13. The future of visual comet hunting

Part IV. How to Observe Comets: 14. An introduction to comet hunting

15. Visual observing of comets

16. Estimating the magnitude of a comet

17. Taking a picture of a comet

18. Measuring where a comet is in the sky

Part V. Closing Notes: 19. My passion for comets.