It is certainly an impressive sight from our northerly location here in Gove.
I was out of town last weekend, but the lads tell me it had the appearance of a giant ghostly Jellyfish through my 10" dob with a 40mm widefield Eyepiece.
I had a look late last night & while the seeing was not fantastic it is very large, easily close to the size of the full moon, filling most of the field of view of a 27mm Panoptic eyepiece.
I have been impresed enough to do a few write up's including this one on Ezine Articles:
http://EzineArticles.com/?id=809600