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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
Thanks Mike.
You did well to see it naked eye. With a bit of smoke around I couldn't see it naked eye despite being in a dark location. I estimated the head was mag 6 or fainter with binoculars.
A friend couldn't see it from Shepherds Lookout (~ Bortle 5) with 30mm binoculars.
Joe
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I stared and stared including plenty of averted vison, concentrating on substantial patches, all around where I thought it would be and finally when the twilight was pretty much gone (but a brightening zodiacal light), I thought, ah huh, I think I see something there, lower left of those two stars, only then did I point the binos there and voila! there it was
hard to see for sure but fits with your brightness estimates. This has been the method I have used to confirm naked eye level of comets, or anything for that matter, in the past, ie find it first, then confirm with binos
Mike