Comet ISON has gotten much brighter recently (see posts here and here). It’s visible with binoculars and in some conditions by naked eye. Updates on visibility can be found at:
- Latest Updates on Comet ISON – Homepage Observing – SkyandTelescope.com
- Everything you need to know: Comet ISON in 2013 – EarthSky
- NOVEMBER 2013 – The ISON Atlas
Rick Boozer tells me that he saw it today:
Caught my first sighting of Comet ISON about
1.54.5 degrees below and to the left of Spica this morning at about 5:50 AM with my binos from fairly light polluted home in Greer, SC. Saw coma and brightest part of tail pointing away from the direction of the Sun. If I had been at my weekend home in the NC mountains, I think I could have seen it naked eye. Weather was too bad this past weekend to try it at NC.Also, Mercury was very bright below and to the left of the comet.
I had a typo in my observation description. I meant to say 4.5 degrees instead of 1.5. Otherwise, totally correct.