comet hartley in bins

[essex sky]

hi

managed to observe hartley with binoculars tonight

not a brilliant sky, very hazy close to the horizon .

but my 9x63 vixen ultima's showed it as a very compact

hazy glow , similar in brightness to m33. with a slight brightning towards the centre.

a pair of 10x50's failed to show it at all

does any one know what its magnitude is at the moment.

most sites i look at seem to say between 5.5 and 7.

lance

[jinstan]

In my 15x70 bins it is much brighter than M33 which is Mag 5.7, so my estimate it is about Mag 5.0-5.5.

[jinstan]

Heavens above says the magnitude is 4.8 at the moment.