In the words of the late great tv identity Big Kev.. 'I'm Excited!'
..why?
In recent times more new very faint components of 73P have been imaged with CCD's and it is now up too 7!! components (is there more..!!?) - although wether the fainter ones survive very long is questionable.
But as it is, this is possibly looking like a closer 'string of pearls' comet more and more! recent images of component 'C' (the main body) seem to show it to be quite dusty indeed!? and hopefully that is a good sign :-)))
http://www.astrostudio.at/Astrofotos...gorie=&k_id=64
but what has got me really excited is the release by Seiichi Yoshida of his light curves for the 7 components - and they may ALL reach small scope in dark sky visibilty! - if they all survive. this will be one sweet widefield shot
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0073P/2006.html
its going to be interesting manually entering all the orbital elemets in starry night for this one
and of course for more info Michael Mattiazzo has a write up and charts for southerners on his site
http://www.yp-connect.net/~mmatti/