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Amateurs who observe new comets from 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 10, 1998 on must contact the CBAT about their discovery and ascertain that they located the comet in an amateur setting before becoming eligible for the award...
Peter F. Williams of Heathcote, New South Wales, Australia, located Comet 1998 P1 (Williams) by telescope on August 10, the first clear night after days of torrential downpour and strong winds that had kept the sky clouded and unobservable...
Although Williams has seen various stars and comets over more than thirty years of involvement in astronomy, Comet 1998 P1 is the first comet he has discovered...
...Luck certainly played its part as I was in no way conducting a systematic search for comets," Williams says. "However, had I not made the effort to observe under full moon when most other amateur astronomers are inactive, who knows who else may have discovered this comet...
...initial circumstances under which Roy A. Tucker of Tucson, Arizona, discovered the comet LONEOS-Tucker P/1998 QP54 on September 13 seems to mirror Williams' find...