Comet Lovejoy.

[cotterless45]

With a clear forecast for some of the UK, Saturday morning before sunrise seems to be a good time to see this in Hercules.Should be easy being in the same binocular fov with M13 in Hercules, now at 8.5 magnitude

Nick.

[Cozzy]

Excellent thanks for the info.

Tim

[cotterless45]

I think that it is appearing to brighten up. This morning at the side of Hercules, at x57 . Also available in x8 binoculars, Nick.

[Wyvern]

Picked up this morning at 05.40 UT under hazy skies with 7x50 bins, just below the bottom right star of the Hercules "Keystone". Unable to see any real tail under these conditions, just noted as a evenly bright, compact haze of light.

Les

[Paul73]

Nick

Thanks for the map/discription. I wandered out at 5:30 armed with binoculars and a 10" Dob. Spent 30mins specifically to find Lovejoy.

No joy (sorry). I was Absolutally sure that I was looking in the right place.

Turns out that Skywalk had it in the wrong place. I think that I glimpsed it in the binos and discounted it as being miles from where I was looking.

I guess that this is why the rest of the world uses Stellarium.

At least I know that it isn't me being a spanner.

Paul

[kerrylewis]

Got up again this morning. Clear but hazy(as Les found) so although I found the comet there was not much to see of the tail just the head quite bright through the haze. I thought that the seeing might be good for, say, Jupiter but I had not set the scope up - went back to bed.

[Mark at Beaufort]

Very clear just after 6am this morning  so decided to view the comet again using the 15x70 binos. The tail was clearly visible with a good bright coma. Pity I could not detect comet c/2012 x1 (Linear)

[PaulB]

I have also seen, and imaged Lovejoy.

Yesterday morning between 5 and 6 am I was lucky to wake up and see a clear sky. The comet was bright in my 15x70 Bs.

Here is the image I took.