Ving, it may get as bright as mag 6+ ish in the morning sky in feb - who knows? comets are famous for being erratic - both ways. Moons gonna be a bit of a pain as usual anyway during best times maybe.
who's complaining about a comet drought? lol - we just had the bumper year in 2004 many records broken for me - i saw 4 different naked eye comets in one calendar year - and two different, simultaneous pairs of ne comets (dark sky) in one calendar year (same 4 comets) - amazing!! that hadnt been done for 50 years or so
try Michael Mattiazzo's site
http://www.yp-connect.net/~mmatti/ with charts and updates
yes comets are bit more of a challenge without goto than planets ect. arent they - hit that dim diffuse moving target
anyone widefield image the SMC and surrounds early dec? you may have a predicovery image of the Pojmanski - if your image goes deep enough that is, maybe 15-16th magish? - it went within a few degrees of the cloud. you would have to stretch contrast and enhance to hell tho i guess
Dave here's a sceenshot from SN of the view from adders at 11:30 pm (DST)
anyway good excuse to crack out the 25x100's and the 20x80's :-))))