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Old 16-01-2007, 09:05 AM
skies2clear
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Don't despair, hopefully you'll get a view of it soon.

To encourage you, I looked for the first time yesterday (15th) just at sunset, and spotted the comet very low about in line with the set sun from my suburb in Adelaide. Looking over the city, but still saw it with 7X50 binos first, then a better look with 20X90 binos. The nucleus is bright and the tail spreads reasonably wide, which was easily noticeable with either binos. As it got lower in the sky and background light reduced, you could spot the nucleus with the naked eye, but very low above the horizon. Hopefully will improve over the next few days. Worth persisting for sure,

Cheers.
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