Comet 103P/Hartley is an unusual object which was visited by the EPOXI
spacecraft in 2010. At that time the Italian CARA group produced some
very important ground-based observations to support the space mission.

Giannantonio Milani of CARA has proposed a cooperation between CARA and
the BAA to observe this year's return. We are still working out details
of how the collection of images and analysis would be performed but I'd
be like to how many observers would be interested in taking part in this
campaign.

Please have a read of the details here:

https://britastro.org/section_news_item/comet-103p-hartley-observing-campaign

If you are interested in being involved please email me directly and
I'll let you know as soon as we have details of the analysis approach.
You can start imaging the comet now, although it is currently around
17th mag and in the morning sky. It should brighten fairly quickly and
it will become more accesible as the nights lengthen into Autumn.

Nick.