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Bob a quick question, your mention of "blurry star" through binoculars (20x50) would I be better off trying with my 80mm Megrez SD (first model) and a 40mm or whatever eyepiece to locate the comet?
I can take it up the lookout, it and my Nikon D810 with my extension adapter are just under the weight limit of my tripod head and I have used them together before just playing with moon shots to get the precise focal distance.
Plus I can carry it up to the lookout. The good lookout where no one goes which has vehicle access blocked off and it's a fair walk but definitely won't be car headlights up there. Carrying the EQ5 Pro, battery pack and other gear (Megrez and 152mm Skywatcher refractor, gas stove, water, just the necessities for star viewing (and coffee and jaffle iron, bread and a can of spaghetti?) near killed me last time but I'd not long before had a heart attack, only weeks prior.
That was only for a lunar eclipse, I don't have to wait another 71 years for one of them.
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