The head of the comet is bright and quite striking in my 10X50 binoculars. I remain fascinated by the pattern of arcs. This morning the images were quite steady allowing a good look at detail. The scaled sketch does not express the impact of the nuclear brightness to the rest. Also, the star dots are a bit large relative to the comet.
Positions are relatively accurate.
Over the hour and a half, the star appeared to move from dark inner zone near the nucleus, into the tail material. As my observing period ended, the star was just at the outer fringe of the coma. In all, the motion reflects about 3 to 4 minutes of arc. Fair Trans.- Good Lim. Bluish ion tail stretched almost to Iota Cephei, about 19 deg.