| | Review of David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Levy tells how a colleague of Barnard’s had perpetrated a hoax by convincing a San Francisco newspaper that Barnard had devised an automated telescope that would track down comets while he was asleep, and set off an alarm when it found one. |
 | | Levy has extensive experience in hunting comets visually, photographically, and electronically through CCD imaging, and he provides a detailed account of his work with each of these methods. |
 | | On page 39, Levy blends the description of the Great Comet of 1882 with that of another bright comet seen the previous year, as if they were the same object—a particularly surprising error as the 1882 comet is especially famous, in fact the brightest comet on record. |
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