Here is the view from the southern extents of Brisbane.
Taken on a camera tripod using a 70-200mmL F/4 IS and 400D
The first shows the view at 70mm (4sec, f/4, ISO800) and the second shows it at 200mm (3sec, f/4, ISO800). It is a great sight with binoculars and I hope to get out a scope tonight for a better view and possibly piccy.
As you can see these shots are through Brisbane's skyglow so it must be an amazing sight under dark skies!!
really enjoyed the reports Graham and Rex! I am living vicariously thru your reports - a big cheers!
that meteors very interesting rex! maybe a taurid? anyways it certainly is the cream in the coffee/cherry on top when stuff like that happens!
i am going a serious shade of green now, and i'm not even the incredible hulk!
Set up in Perth South of the city this morning Sunday and found it, Just, despite not a cloud in the sky, the view was not at all good. The comet appeared to have lost its center brightness and was just a very dull luminous fuzzy glow. In fact Next image could not even detect it from the ambient light pollution using the SW880 10" Equally as dim in the binos compared with last week when it was quite bright.
Ah well... Next comet.
I can confirm Dave's observation, I saw it properly for the first time this morning from backyard in over a week, as clouds cleared for a while (the night i got image, last monday morning, was bad and i couldnt even see it by the time i took that photo), and boy it has dimmed since then. It appeared Large diffuse uniform white patch/ball maybe 10 arc minutes in size in 8x56 binocs, no real discernable central condensation. Still saw it NE, but it took a little effort, my conditions werent 100%, but not terrible. no colour seen in binocs either!!
Thanks Dave.. Seeing that I don't think I have a hope from here. It's just too far north at transit and by then my view will be lost. I could probably almost see it at 1deg if I'm lucky
this link has been making the rounds quite a bit, may be some who havent seen it possibly? - anyway i cant stop watching the animation of the break up of invisible bits/chunks that create the fine dust streaks - so it was definitely a breakup of a kind then? amazing! supposedly hubble and spitzer images are to come for sure
these NH imagers (and their lovely comet) are pretty damn amazing eh 
