[ngcles]

Hi Chris & All,

Thanks for that. C/2009 P1 is still a loooong way out (most of the way to Jupiter) but has the potential to be a nice-ish telescopic or binocular comet in about 11 months time. It is currently performing fractionally better than would normally be expected/predicted.

But as David Levy is fond of saying; "Comets are like cats: They have tails and do whatever they want". In the end it is very hard to accurately predict what they will do -- particularly the first-timers round the Sun.

Good to see you are keeping an eye out on them.


Best,

Les D