We have a popular West facing lookout here at Berowra and maybe 20 people gathered, with a pretty good sky up until the last 3 or 4 degrees of haze ( bushfire smoke ?) .
The comet was easy naked eye most of the time and at least people were adaptive and seemed pleased they could see something even if it was just a tiny star like blob to them. The view in my 20 X 80s showed a bright nucleus a few arc minutes acrossand maybe 8 to 10 arc minutes of tail though I'm sure this was just the bright bit from the coma not the gas tail.
I wish the media wouldn't hype comets up so much , it lets the public down a little : I can think of many comets I've seen far more spectacular than this though the nucleus is surely as bright as anything I've seen.
I'm hoping that with the comet higher up by Lostock the tail will be a much better display
Mark