Friends in Palm Springs sent me this yesterday taken from their house. I have too much cloud cover and light pollution to see anything from my location.

We have too much cloud cover too, as we did last night and likely the next couple of nights. We tried to view it Saturday night -and failed. Saturday was said to have been our best viewing opportunity.

We drove to our hospital parking lot with sandwiches right at dusk, prepared to stay and watch for it - we had read 45-60 min after dusk and were there right at dusk. Hospital security asked us to leave as 'comet watch' was not hospital business. We were not taking up needed parking spaces, there were 8-10 empty right around us.

Too many big trees right here around our house looking West.

We joined a half doz or so cars on the hilltop tsunami route ;) Watched for more than 45 min and saw lots of stars come out, a couple of planes. No comet. I don't know what happened to it. It was clear and bright night sky but one by one cars began to leave. I think we were the last holdout and it had clouded over Sunday evening before sunset and we stayed here, had dinner. Sigh.

It won't be clear enough here until Thurdays evening for a decent show, hopefully so. This one looks to be the best comet in many years, no binoculars required. I haven't seen a real eye popping comet since Comet Bennett back in 70'.

Thanks. I just looked it up for Colorado. Best seen 45 minutes after sunset, to the West.

I will look for it this evening, but we have Mount San Jacinto just to the west of us, and the sun sets behind this mountain about 45 minutes (or more) earlier than it would if the mountain were not there. Therefore, the comet might go behind the mountain as well before it is dark enough for us to see it. We might have to drive somewhere this weekend to see it, like Joshua Tree, but that might be crowded.

I just got home from viewing it. It was pretty faint as we have so much ambient light and the moon is almost full. Easier to see with the binoculars.

We couldn’t see it. Too many trees, moon, ambient light, and maybe the sun was still creating the western glow. And maybe I need to calibrate my star app.

My neighbor and i went out to look for it. All we saw was Venus ( I think). Too cloudy, but the full moon was pretty spectacular.

wed-thurs should be better ... as moonrise is about an hour later each night ... I remember draggibg my daughter out in the cold to see Halley ... and Hale-Bopp was great, and West.

I did a radio series on Halley; which was fun. Two-week series of two-minute vignettes.

We did not see it but will keep looking for it.

It's higher than you might think and further to the right of Venus than you might think. And each night it will be a little higher. But the tail gets shorter as it gets further from the sun.

I remember seeing Hale Bopp. That was astounding.

My friend in Nevada got a shot of it too but it was cloudy here.

There has been evening and overnight coastal overcast where I am, same as Fun2B mentioned. Maybe light pollution too but I wouldn't know, can't see past the marine layer.

Farther to the right of Venus? Haha, that's not a starting point I can use.

North-south-east-west, degrees above the horizon. Any hints just in case the overcast clears?

Look to the west maybe 45 minutes after sunset. I believe the comet will be setting about 9pm tonight our time or about 2:45 hrs after sunset. Venus is pretty easy to see as it the brightest "star" in the sky, usually the first one you see. You can tell it's a planet as it doesn't twinkle like stars do. I've read 20° north of venus but the degrees don't mean anything to me so that didn't help me at all. I know it makes no sense, but I think in feet and inches, so about 16" north. About 14" up from the horizon...but even that would depend on how high you are relative to the horizon... mountain vs. valley would be very different. It looks very much like the picture Fun posted, though much fainter. I had to try from a much darker area before I could see it with my naked eye. I managed to get in the shade of some trees which helps as the moon is full. If you can find your way into the shade, it'd be easier. Also spend some time at it. It takes about 20 min for your eyes to adjust completely to the darkness. I needed binoculars to find it. Once I knew where it was, I could faintly see it with my naked eye, but the binoculars really helped.

I’ve got an app called Planets.

Just hold your phone at whatever planet or star you can see ( or can’t see) and it will identify what you are looking at. It even shows below the horizon.

I’m outside right now, and of course it is broad daylight. The sun is fairly low in the sky. This is my screenshot just now.

The green is below the horizon.

If you know what planet or constellation to use as a marker, this is a very easy app to use to find what you are looking for.

It is a wonderful app for identifying the night sky. It even identifies the sky from indoors.

I’ll lie in bed at night, spot something extra bright, grab my phone and it will identify what I’m looking at if it is not obvious.

My husband can identify what he’s looking at in the night sky without the app. He spends a lot of time studying the night sky and I’m often outside with him at 3 am looking up. I like the app because it answers my question immediately, and is not as detailed and as long as my husband’s response.

Also too cloudy here again tonight for me to see the comet. rox, I really like the idea of that app. Unfortunately I have a cheapo flip phone ($99 model) and not connected to the internet and all that jazz.

One of the original tall schoolhouse windows is in my bedroom, and when I get up in the middle of the night and walk past it, I always take a quick peek out up to the sky. I see so many bright stars and other objects I wished I could identify. Most intriguing are the clusters of stars that happen every so often (is cluster the right term?), stars or planets lining up I guess. When the moon is full and bright, it lights up the room. The night before was magical.

Maybe this will help

Perfectly clear here (and very pleasant outdoors, 82° at 7 PM), but we still did not see it. I guess I can blame the moon. We'll try again tomorrow.

That drawing helps, thanks.

If it's clear tomorrow, I'll look directly over the barn (kidding). I mean, west at maybe 30 deg above the horizon.