Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.
In letzter Zeit haben allerdings Projekte wie Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research und Near Earth Asteroid Tracking dazu geführt, dass die meisten Kometen durch automatische Suchsysteme erfasst werden, lange bevor diese durch Amateure gesehen werden können.