Observing comets is made easier with this easy-to-use reference guide. By providing a brief history of the nature of comets, this guide helps to detail certain observations that can be carried out by using a telescope.

Whether its searching for new comets and estimating their brightness and lengths of their tails or observing periodic comets, this book provides information for both. Details about twenty periodic comets that are predicted to return up until the year 2027 as well as one super bright comet that is visible yearly is also included.