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Managed to drag myself out of a warm bed before dawn this morning to get a look at Comet 2020 F8 Swan. Despite a layer of cloud lower down on the eastern horizon , the comet was easy to find in 13 X 70 binos even as the first glow of dawn was brightening the eastern horizon.
The coma seemed about 8' in diameter and I thought I could detect a faint tail about 1/2 deg long. Current magnitude estimates have it at 5.5 mag.
Certainly worth getting out of bed for and with some more clear mornings forecast I will certainly take the opportunity to observe it again and maybe try and image before it disappears into the dawn twilight over the next week or so.
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