When the sky is cloudy or atmospheric conditions are poor, images seen through your telescope are unstable. At such times, you say the seeing is not good. Surprisingly, there are more days in the Japanese summer when the seeing is better than during the winter. Comet hunters and asteroid hunters One of the most enjoyable parts of astronomical observation is finding a new asteroid or comet. Asteroids are stars that have been too dark to have been spotted before, but suddenly become brighter because of changes to their activities and can be seen from Earth for the first time.
Some people even spend years searching through the night skies.
Finding a new planet or comet by yourself then naming it after yourself seems like a fantasy, but there have been over a dozen Japanese who have done just that. A famous recent case was the comet Hyakutake in 1995.