Please see also the Comet Rendezvous Calendar , Latest Pictures of Comets . The nucleus D has brightened rapidly and reached to 12 mag in early November visually. It may be much brighter than this ephemris. Recent brightness is uncertain. Only southern people can observe it.
Northern people can never see it again.
Not observable around the perihelion passage at all. When it appears at dawn in 2000 June, it will be already fainter than 15 mag. Dec. 5 Only southern people can observe it. It will appear again in 2000 August as 13 mag. Only southern people can observe it.