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Originally Posted by tomtom
Great pictures! Didn't know you could see it already.
Anyone know if it will be visible from Aus when it gets closer?
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Should be visible now and for the rest of the month in 12 inch scopes in the evening sky between Libra and Scorpius according to
http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/
As for magnitude estimates, the BAA comet section puts it at mag 9, but it seems a hard target for mag 9. Stellarium has it at mag 12?
Looks it it will disappear from view for a while with conjunction with the Sun in November, then reappear in the SE morning sky late December 2012 in Scorpius. It will remain a pre dawn object from about late December to late February. Sometime February it should be naked eye. This is the best time for me to take the best photos I think.
Late February / early March it will swing into the western sky near Sunset. It may be bright at this time but has poor elongation from the Sun. From late March we will lose it from the southern hemisphere as it rapidly heads north. Then it's showtime for the northern hemisphere.