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I thought Hail-Bopp had a shorter tail
Quoting David Pike :

> Well, I finally saw it from the side of my house.  On 20th23.00UTC,
> it was on a line from Megrez to Merak about 1.5 - 2 times that
> distance, a bit to the left and a fraction up on Talitha and its
> chum.  After looking for 15 minutes with 12x40 Russian binoculars
> (hardly ideal for night work but only £4GBP from a charity shop),
> the thin cirrus towards the northern horizon thined and the tail was
> suddenly so obvious one wonders how one could have missed it for so
> long.
>
> It wasn't as good as Hail-Bopp in 1997, which I saw easily with the
> naked eye.  However, I saw that was from the top of Lakeland fells
> far away from any light polution whilst on a night navigation hike
> (just like a day hike, and when my eyesight was 23 years younger.
> DaveP
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