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Originally Posted by Analog6
Would some altitude be helpful to see this? No luck at home as hills and trees to west.
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Always helpful when an object is low Odille, but you'll also have to wait a night or two for the Moon to move back to give you a dark sky window. The comet is dimming fast so don't expect too much. A visual obs of mag 9.2 was posted on 1 Aug, and it will probably be about mag 10 by the time you get to see it. It will just be a small faint patch - you won't see anything of a bright 'nucleus' (inner coma) without a big scope (nuclear magnitude was reported at around mag 13 by several observers on 30 July so expect it to be out around mag 14).
A Chinese observer, Man-To Hui, posted a sketch he'd done of the comet on 1 Aug, through an 8" scope. In a few days, expect that to be the sort of view you'll get through a 10" or 12" scope even allowing for no moonlight, not much at all I'm afraid.
http://comethunter.lamost.org/sketch...P.htm#20120801
Good luck, look forward to hearing how you go!
Cheers -