Got a telescope? The Rosetta Comet Campaign would like your help.

[Skidmore]

For all of our amateur astronomers. This looks like fun.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/rosettas-comet-campaign-wants-you04152015/

Rosetta’s Comet Campaign Wants YOU!
By: Bob King | April 15, 2015

Participate in a world-wide campaign to observe and photograph Comet 67P/C-G as it approaches and recedes from the Sun with Rosetta in tow. Your observations matter.

Just because there's a billion-dollar-plus spacecraft mission examining every nook and cranny of Rosetta's comet doesn't mean amateur astronomers can't play an important role in its study, too. To tap into the skills of amateurs and professionals alike, the Rosetta Worldwide Ground-based Observing Program was initiated last year.

At the time, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was little more than a 23rd-magnitude blip. But now that the comet is emerging from solar conjunction and brightening, the campaign is moving into high gear. Time to dust off that scope!

You wouldn't think an 8-inch Dob under the quivering blanket of Earth's atmosphere could add to the our understanding of 67P/C-G, but amateurs have several advantages:

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[Baclava]

1. I don't have a telescope - I just look at their pretty pictures

Rosetta’s View of a Comet’s “Great Divide”


NavCam image of 67P/C-G acquired on May 12, 2015.



http://www.universetoday.com/120448/rosettas-view-of-a-comets-great-divide/#more-120448


Rosetta Gets a Peek at Comet 67P’s “Underside”


Mosaic of 67P acquired on Jan. 16, 2015

http://www.universetoday.com/118404/rosetta-gets-a-peek-at-comet-67ps-underside/