David H. Levy special edition telescope, "The Comet Hunter" was co-designed by Levy. Together with Martyn Ives, David Taylor, and Benjamin Woolley, Levy won a 1998 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the "Individual Achievement in a Craft, Writer" category for the script of the documentary "3 Minutes to Impact" produced by York Films for the Discovery Channel. David H. Levy David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994. Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
Great Comet of 1744 "dust striae" seen in the tails of some comets, such as Comet West and C/2006 P1 (McNaught). Chéseaux, on March 9, was the last known observer in the northern hemisphere to see the comet, but it remained visible for observers in the southern hemisphere, some of whom reported a tail length of approximately 90 degrees on March 18. The comet was not seen after April 22, 1744. The comet also was noted in Japanese astronomical records in the "Nihon Odai Ichiran" of the Kanpō era. Researchers have found in Chinese astronomical records that some Chinese observations describe audible sounds associated