Peter,

Definitely not a cheat!

It is always great to see amateur work recognised in professional
papers, especially in a prestigious journal like MNRAS. Thanks for
listing your affiliation as the BAA Comet Section too.

I've just skimmed through the paper. It looks interesting. I will read
it in more detail at the weekend.

Nick.

On 04/06/2026 13:32, Peter Carson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> Thank you for your kind praise. I feel a bit of a cheat, as my contribution to the paper was just the images, some photometry data, and their analysis. I left the really intelligent content to the other Co-authors. The same applies to the other two scientific papers I've co-authored recently.
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> Peter
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> Well done Peter.
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