... I grabbed a quick look at Comet NEAT in my 10x50 binocs in a dark spot on my way home from Cork: About magnitude 4 t0 4.5, with a nice tail at least 1 degree long. ...
... But it's better elsewhere, and I've just had a t/c report from Martin Eagle in Eyeries in the Beara peninsula in West Cork that he saw Kudo-Fujikawa earlier this evening in 10x50 binocs, looking like a fainter version of M13 (no tail). ...
... Comet NEAT is now developing nicely: the BAA says it's '5th magnitude' but I esimated it at about 5m.6 at 19.05 this evening in 10x50 30x80 binocs, with a tail of about 1.5 degrees. ...
... If anyone is going to a much more southerly latitude for a holiday, have a look: compare it with Spica, Antares, Lambda Sco (last star in the 'tail') = 1m.6; and Epsilon Sgr (bottom right of the 'teapot') = 1m.8. ...
... And the radiant will still be very low even at 01.00 (less than 10 degrees for most of Ireland), when this extra early activity is likely to be tailing off, so we will be lucky to see much happening from here at all. ...