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A casual observer may be satisfied simply to enjoy the spectacle of the occasional bright comet that comes or way, but anyone seriously interested in observing these objects will wish to do much more than this. To serve as useful scientific data, your observations need to be properly recorded and reported.
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Seargent, D.A.J. (2017). Recording and Reporting Your Observations. In: Visually Observing Comets. Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45435-1_12
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