MexicoDoug, What a great synopsis of the aspects of this comet. I did not think of the ion tail and the dust tail configurations. This is a very dusty comet for sure. And as you suggested, I went out last night to see the tail after Venus set. Sure enough! There it was wrapped in the zodiacal light. I saw three "tails" pointing up and tilted to the north! That was at 7:15 PM MST But then, my wife so impatient with me and my "compulsion" to see this shouted from the car: "Steve! Get back here I don't want to miss Ugly Betty!" Humm... don't know what anyone can see in that show when it will be maybe a million years for this comet to ever show again. (Guess she's not that enthused about comets) I will in this weekend make some drawings from memory as to what my daylight observations looked like here in Flagstaff. I will do four drawings with my hand blocking out the sun showing the track as I saw it. (Wish I could have photographed it but I was at my disability job) And I will do the last where I saw the end of its tail. So, I saw the head during the day, and the tail at night, but missed the spectacle in between. Wish I were down under for that one. Steve Schoner #4470
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