Greg, why? havent you got enough ex south aussies over there yet?
I might of just missed it in the news I guess, certainly wasnt in the newspaper. did they get a good turn out at the observatory for comets?
Anyhoo just got back in from a quick look at the pair with the 20x80 binocs, and this time I printed out a star chart and tried to get a rough estimation of there magnitude, instead of relying on the legions of northern hemisphereans doing all the obs, and they are both dimmer than 6.3 thats for sure, - I may of way over estimated there brightness the other day, although I think B was a lot brighter the other day.
Sorry for the bum steer chrissara, but I also hadnt read/seen any obs for a few days, and doing mag estimates in moonlight is tricky, can underestimate them.
B was dimmer than C, I would put it in the high 6's easy - they have switched around again in that regard.
but B still had the larger outer coma, which was around 15 ghostly arcminutes in dia. and probably had at least .5 deg tail
C had about a quarter of a degree of tail and a smaller but brighter coma.
Moon interfered more with the view on this morning than it did on tuesday morning for me as well.
man that must of been a nice view when B flared middle of last week, lucky people who saw that :-)