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Last night at 10:30 pm (UT+11) McNaught was about magnitude 8. I looked at it with my 12 inch dob and compared it to a nearby out of focus star HD 216150. It was only 7 degrees above the horizon. At 3:30 am this morning it was only just visible with 7x50s and the wide tail was about 1 degree long with 20x80 triplet binoculars. With 20x80s it was similar in magnitude and size to NGC 346 in the SMC.
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