DunnDave@aol.com wrote:
Comet Machholz is visible to the "naked eye" tonight. If you follow the V of the Hyades there is a star about 10 degrees away. The comet is about 3 fingers widths from that star a little north of the line from Hyades to the star. It is about the same brightness as the star.
Dave
Agreed, although I can see why you put naked eye in quotation marks. With fairly dark skies, after first using binoculars to find it and then with averted vision I could see it "naked eye". In binoculars (11x70) it was fun to see a fairly bright star swimming in the outer edge of the coma. Pulled out the Astroscan for the first time in years and was some surprised that even with that I still could not see an obvious tail. At best the coma seemed a bit flattened on one side and extended very slightly on the other. Patrick