[BAA Comets] Report from the European Comet Conference at Ondřejov Observatory

[Nick James]

Morning all,

Recently, Jakub Černý organised a conference on comet observing at the 
famous Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic. I attended on behalf 
of the Comet Section and Richard Miles was there too.

Jakub has written a summary of the conference here:

http://www.smph.cz/news/Report-from-European-comet-conference---Ond%C5%99ejov-2015

It was a very enjoyable and productive weekend and I came back with lots 
of thoughts about how to improve the efficiency of our comet observing 
programme and how to increase co-operation with other European groups. 
There is a lot that we can learn from each other.

My main focus since I got back has been how to improve the CCD comet 
Visual Equivalent Magnitude workflow by implementing some software to do 
most of the work automatically. I'm still working on this and haven't 
been able to to devote as much time to it as I would like but I should 
have more news soon.

If any of you are going to be at the Association's Exhibition in Cardiff 
next weekend I hope to see you there. It will be a good opportunity to 
discuss some of these topics.

Nick.