It was cold (about 30 degrees) and breezy at about 9:30 PM when I went outdoors to check on Comet Holmes. The weather lately has not been hospitable to observing what with clouds, rain, and even a bit of snow. Tonight the sky was briefly very clear overhead. Aiming into Perseus with my binoculars I fished about only briefly before spotting the cometary cloud very high overhead. It has grown even larger than it was but has faded dramatically. Even with our "clear" skies, light pollution and the dimness of the object made it impossible to see without the binoculars. Predicted weather for the next few days is mostly cloudy with rain and snow, so this glimpse at the sky is apparently about all I'll be seeing for a while. It's going… going….
Update: I went out again at 10:30 to try and take a look at Mars but the sky had gone from clear to mostly cloudy. {Sigh!}
I felt very lucky to have seen the comet, thanks (again) to you! ~S