If you get outside in the next couple of days and train your eyes through some binoculours or other glass aparatus on the middle of Perseus (Overhead in a North Easternly fashion around 10pm) you can see the exploded comet 17P/Holmes. It will look kind of like a bright smudge on your lens as depicted above.
Since its dark as night out in the middle of the night I found that I couldn't see through my lens, so ever so patiently Tony with a monocular spotted the sucker as we stood atop Pinehurst Road and then I spent another 15 minutes trying to zoom my lens in the right direction and actually pick up an image. The dogs (What-a-Mess and Pao) at least got to run around while the two humans starred off into the sky...crazy humans.
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