Tutorial:
How to find these exciting comets?

Content:

1. Comets
2. How to see a comet?
3. How to find a comet
4. Make your own star/comet chart

2: How to see a comet?

If you are lucky it will come a bright comet, I believe if it has a magnitude of 5 (magnitude is how astronomers measure brightness: https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Apparent_magnitude 4 is brighter than 5!) or more there is a chance to see it by naked eye from dark areas. I have only seen two comets by naked eye, Hyakutake in 1996 and Hale Bopp in 1997.

With a binocular you will have a better chance to see them, here are some information:

• http://www.space.com/ 23566-comet-ison-observing-guide-binoculars-telescopes.html

With a telescope and camera it could be like this even under hard light pollution:

This is my own photo of the comet Catalina, if you want to know more about what equipment I used you can read here:

Nowadays you don't need a very expensive equipment to do photographing on comets, an ordinary DSLR camera will do on the brighter comets.