Theweatherspace.com, 7/15,13
During a star party on the night of July 8th, Astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered a new comet near Capella, the brightest star in the constellation Auriga.
The comet was confirmed on July 13, bearing the final name C/2013 N4 (Borisov). The telescope used was an 8-inch telescope with a CCD camera. Comets are extremely hard to discover now-a-days due to projects like LINEAR and PANSTARRS. These projects are robotic, automated systems that scan the sky and take photos. When an object is shown to move in these scans, astronomers are then alerted to look it over and see if it is a new discovery.
