[mike]

Here is a photo that I took the other night of the Comet NcNaught over Adelaide, Australia.

[mike]

In case anyone is interested here are some websites with some information about the Comet McNaught.

http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2006P1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught

It would be interesting to know if anyone else in the world saw this comet and where they saw it (ie country or city where they could see it). I was in Adelaide, Australia, it was about 10pm on the 25th January.

I think it has almost left our space now, so it was a once off event.

[Borek]

Missed it completely. But then sky in Europe was hidden for most of the time.

[pantone159]

I think I am too close to the equator to see it.  I read stories about people going to Alaska to see it, that's a lot further north than I am.  (If I'm wrong about that, I messed up.)  Too bad, it seems like it was extremely impressive.

[mir]

I missed it because of heavy rainclouds (as usual).

But I follow it closely at www.spaceweather.com

And through the SOHO-images, when it passed the sun :-)

Really amazing! I remember Hale-Bopp and Hyuakutake still. And I did some great sketches of it.

I did a calculation once of how often a big comet visited the nightsky based on numbers from a NASA website (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?great_comets)

Based on the last 1000 years, a big comet is visiting us with intervals between 23-36 years.
Based on the last 200 years the intervals are between  5-18 years.

There is a long time until the next big one I guess...

[Contusion]

I saw McNaught extremely well, I live in Brisbane, Australia and got tons of pictures of it. I saw it over a few days (Jan 18th-21st) and the earliest I ever saw the comet was 7:10pm (EST) and the comet set at around 7:50pm so it wasn't the best viewing window.

I'll upload a couple of pictures of the comet tomorrow for your viewing pleasure.