Home again, and pleased to see more of you down south found it.
Appears my coastal neighbour Tropo-Bob and I were drafting reports at the same time.
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I could glimpse it with the unaided eye, but it was faint and I would not have recognized it as being a comet. I estimated it to be Mag 5.3…
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Yes, it seems our northern positions aided, with sunset relatively earlier, hence both of us reported naked eye status of the core. In fact, each time I've be surprised by the size of the core, but I'm a newbie re comets. The MPC data imported into Stellarium suggests mag 4.87 reduced to 5.3, as Bob suggested, but to my eye the core was brighter than the Terebellum stars (4.4–4.8, reduced to 4.95–5.4), but like a star fuzzied by thin cloud. Tonight I could not make out the greenish tinge that was definitely there 2 and 3 nights ago.
Our forecasts are for steadily rising chance of rain and eventual storms, so I doubt I'll get any more opportunities. Wish I were in Winton at the moment.
Barry