Great reports from everyone, and
to all the new members who found us due to Comet McNaught!
I went to Long Jetty last night, viewing across to the lake to the WSW. The sun was much further to the South than I expected, so the mountains were closer and obscuring more horizon than I was expecting. I used my 11x70 binoculars for some time trying to spot the comet.
I eventually found it as a faint, difuse white patch of sky, with a 45° fan like tail extending above and to the right.
Conditions were quite average, with high scattered cloud and thick cloud just above the mountains. I got a few pictures, and then while waiting for it to get darker, I lost visibility of it and never found it again. I'm guessing it went behind some of those clouds.
Hoping for better conditions tonight, and I think i'll go further north towards The Entrance, for a longer view across the lake to the WSW.
Images here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...0&postcount=94