[petuniasevan]

[RightWhale]

In the old days of astronomy, when astronomers actually looked through telescopes, they would stay up all night tracking by hand for long-exposure photographs through telescopes, and then stay up all day looking through blink comparators hoping to spot moving objects such as this. Once they found one, they would attempt to track it for a while until they could get three separated position readings and apparent angular velocities and then stay up all weekend calculating orbits with 7-place log tables. Modern astronomers hardly ever look through telescopes, and they don't have to stay up all night in an unheated dome. Astronomers were a different breed.

[sistergoldenhair]

Thanks!