I did photography other than bino viewing of the comet. The comet was glorious in binos. Naked eye once you confirmed the location with binos. I setup around 5:30p.m. I went with a polar alignment through the polar axis scope so I could start shooting the comet early in the evening. Polar alignment was not too critical since I was going to track the comet head and there would be trailing of stars anyway. I just want to have the star trails straight instead of curved. I shot 3-4 exposures of the comet. The longest was 15 minutes and the shortest was 6 minutes. I received my slides back today and I am very happy. I have to send the 6x7 negs away for scanning. I also shot M51 and M104. They came out very nice. I should have good shots to put together on those two objects. This time of year is difficult for a 1000mm focal length scope. The galaxies need either long focal length (2000mm)or a CCD camera on a moderate focal length. The night was extremely nice. No dew and only a very small amount of frost on the most vulnerable places. I slept in the car during exposures. I did see a very bright Iridium or some kind of flare around 9:00 ish going straight north. It was exceedingly bright. I will have to look it up when I get a chance. The skies were very nice. Transparency was probably a 7 and the seeing around a 7. Quite a usable night. I wrapped up shooting around 4:00 a.m. Jeff