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What I thought was really cool was standing in the hot midday sun, dialling up the comet on my argo navis, nudging the 10 inch scope till the numbers go down to zero, looking through the 16mm nagler and seeing this bright spot with a hase, noticably elongated around it. On the day of perihelion, it was cloudy, but through a hole in the clouds that lasted just a few seconds, I saw it and it was so bright it was dazzling to look at. At its closest angular distance to the sun as seen from Earth, the Sun focused in the tube of my scope 1/2 way between the tube wall and the secondary, needless to say I was VERY careful about what I was doing.
Scott
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