After getting up and going outside at 5:00 AM this morning to find comet ISON with my 10x50 binoculars it suddenly dawned on me that binoculars would not pick up a 9th or 10th magnitude object. Sure enough, no ISON ... but the stars were wonderful. I spent 20 minutes or so viewing the Pleiades, M42 (the Great Nebula in Orion) and Jupiter's moons - yep, the sky was so crystal clear that I could easily make out Jupiter's moons with hand-held 10x50s.
I was going to bring out the 8" telescope tomorrow morning but now it seems the weather is not cooperating! So, looks like I wait until later towards the weekend.
So, when will ISON be visible in binoculars? Probably by the end of the month when the comet should reach 6th or 7th magnitude.
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