seeing i am amongst only a handful? of people that imaged p1 from adelaide last night (sat), i will post my crappy 'evidence shots'
betwen gaps in the cloud grabbed a couple after soaking in the imposing views, later on the clouds gave us plenty of looks at sheer enormity of the beast - and by the time we left at 10:30 pm the glowing light dome of p1's northern tail section reached at least 40d high and about 50d to the north
This isnt the 'prettiest' naked eye great comet i have seen - hyakutake in the midnight sky still gets that description, altho photgraphically it is pretty looking at he multitude of awesome images on the net. It reminded me of a horror movie where the pulsating glowing blob just gets bigger and bigger as it got darker hehe
gale/storm affected shots
http://southern-x.org/so_x/p1/p1sat20th_0734.jpg
http://southern-x.org/so_x/p1/p1sat20thglow.jpg
50mm lens uncropped
seeing i have seen very aptly used comparisions to auroral glows as a description of the humungous ill defined tail - i think the aurorae observation expression 'picket fence' describes the naked eye banding very well