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.
Men under den senare tiden har stora forskningsprojekt som Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research och Near Earth Asteroid Tracking betytt att de flesta nya kometer nu upptäcks av automatiserade system, långt innan amatörer kan se dem.