Amateur Stargazers Spot a Comet Before the Professionals
A backyard telescope and a lot of patience beat the big observatories to it.
A local astronomy club logged the faint smudge three nights before the official alert.
Patience, not hardware
Their gear is modest; their persistence is not. The comet now bears the club report number.
The sky belongs to whoever bothers to look up.
Thanks for reading.
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