Well, after getting very excited about seeing and photographing many bright dots close to the sun today, I have discarded a surprisingly large number of photos with the dots in the wrong places. There is so much human stuff up there!
Here are the remaining three re-processed photos which seem to correspond roughly to the comet's position at different times of the day. The bright dots are in the bottom right third of the photos:
- 12:17pm with the sun in the northeast,
- 12:52pm with the sun in the north-northeast,
- 4:25pm with the sun in the west, looking west.
What bothers me is that the promising bright dots were not consistently reproducible across all of my photos, suggesting that while they may have been roughly in the right position at the time the photos were taken, they may have been just passing through the field.
I would be interested in people's thoughts as to whether these were the comet or something else.
I took these photos using an iPhone and used different parts of my house to block out the sun at different angles through the day. The photos have been rotated and stretched, and so do not form a linear series.
Thanks.