One of my neighbors had a backyard observatory, less than 75 yards from my place. He was active in the local astronomy club, and also headed off to Eastern Oregon where they had a spot in the desert.

He took a picture of Shoemaker-Levy breaking up and impacting Jupiter which was so good that a publisher bought it and it appeared on a nationally sold calendar, the astronomy calendar sold in your local supermarket. I was impressed.

He also had a program which scanned the skies for movement, hoping to detect a new comet or asteroid. He set it up and turned on the thing for overnight and immediately found an uncharted object moving against the background.

Wow, I thought. You've got something named after you.

Not so fast, QuickDraw. I don't remember where I had the telescope focused. It was just a test run, first time I used it.

Oh, well.