Vera Rubin Observatory comet identification
Nick James 02 Jul 2025 06:34 UTC
Members may be interested in this citizen science website. It uses
people (i.e. you) to classify moving objects detected in preliminary
engineering images as cometary or asteroidal:
cometcatchers.net
It is designed by the same people who introduced the zooniverse galaxy
classification website and it will no doubt provide lots of tagged data
to train their machine learning algorithms so that computers can
ultimately take over this job. In the meantime there is the possibility
that you might discover a comet in the data.
Nick.