I took a look at the comet last night when I came home from work. With the naked eye I could barely see it -- so barely that I wasn't sure I really did. I went inside and got the powerful binocs Chuck sold me. The comet was dim but enormous, immediately north of Alpha Persei. Trying to estimate its size by that of the moon on the other side of the sky, I thought it looked like it was about three-quarters of the moon's diameter. Maybe it was even as large as the moon. It was hard to tell because of course I couldn't have them both in the same field of view. I'm hoping someone could calculate its general size, using that number of arc minutes projected out beyond Mars' orbit. Also, when it went in front of the star, which I understand it always has, I hope someone took a spectrum of the star so that we could see how it changed when the comet went in front. -- Joe