(11.30pm). Spotted the comet 'Neouise' - pretty faint. At 11pm could just find it with the naked eye once I'd located it with binoculars. So that's better than Halley, which was very dim if I saw it at all in 1986, and worse than Hale-Bopp, which looked like a proper picture-book comet to the naked eye in 1997. This one was in the NW rather like H-B.

Have stayed up 1-1½ hours past my bedtime for this. For science!

Saw a shooting star during the observations too.

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BRIGHT at times