I hve observed it with a 40cm dob for quite a while now and it is about 9.5 mag,in your 25cm scope it would look like a small out of shape defuse galaxy, and being in Virgo you could mistake it for one, a friend saw it in his 25cm on Sunday night from Burpengary north of Brisbane, at the same time as Iwas seeing it from my dark site in the mary valley 60kms inland from Caloundra andwe compared the view over the phone. It made a triangle with two mag 7.5 stars with a small spiral galaxy inthe same field. The comet will not get much brighter,sojust watch the images on the computer. astroron
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