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Yay, picked #comet #12P #PonsBrooks out of super-bad skies over #Bochum, Germany, with a #superzoom camera - on a tripod with a few seconds exposure - an hour ago. According to https://cobs.si/obs/comet/484/ the total coma magnitude is ~5.9 right now. 11x70 binoculars, normally quite good with comets, showed exactly nothing in this "sky" with a naked-eye limiting magnitude of ~2.3 - but the €300 camera saved the day, err, evening. 12P could get another 2.5 mag. = a factor 10 brighter: yes, please ...!