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Seeing the Bigger Picture: Rosetta Mission Amateur Observing Campaign and Lessons for the Future

Roche, Paul; Norton, Andrew; Snodgrass, Colin +2 more

Amateur astronomers can make useful contributions to the study of comets. They add temporal coverage and multiscale observations that can aid the study of fast-changing and large-scale comet features. We document and review the amateur observing campaign set up to complement the Rosetta space mission, including the data submitted to date, and cons…