Hunting and Imaging Comets

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Martin Mobberley is a well-known amateur astronomer from Suffolk, England, who joined the British Astronomical Association in 1969, aged eleven, initially as a visual observer. Since the early 1980s he has been a regular photographer and imager of comets, planets, asteroids, variable stars, novae, and supernovae. He served as one of the youngest presidents of the British Astronomical Association, from 1997 to 1999, and in 2000 he was presented with the associations Walter Goodacre Award. In 1997 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named asteroid number 7239 as Mobberley in recognition of Martins contribution to amateur astronomy. Martin is the sole author of seven previous practical astronomy books published by Springer as well as three childrens Space Exploration books published by Top That Publishing. In addition he has authored hundreds of articles in the UK magazine Astronomy Now and numerous other astronomical publications, as well as appearing from time to time on Patrick Moores long-running BBC TV program The Sky at Night.

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