Dee
Comet C2006 M4 SWAN
15X70 SkyMaster Binoculars
20:38:00 UT
19/10/06
Humidity 94%
Bray
Co Wicklow
Bootes
Mag ? 6.5
This evening I got my second look at Comet C2006 M4 SWAN it is brighter than last time maybe 6.5 a defined bright center with lots of nebulous material all around it. Not easy to see an tail but in my binoculars it was or seemed to be brighter toward my left looking at it tonight, happy to see it again. SWAN looked very well below and in the same fov as Seginus or Gamma Bootes.
Earlier I had a look at it in my Sky Watcher 200mm with a 25mm Meade eyepiece and it looked, well the main bright point within it looked defined still hard to see a tail or even the direction the material was headed or the shape of the material. My 9V went in my red light, what a pain, I grabbed the only other torch in the house.
Of course it was one of these million candle jobs from the garage, who needs a million candels to draw in the dark. I shoved it in a bush backward to take the glare off it, so I could at least see my dots/stars.
Headed to the shop in between my first and second sketch for 9V the telescope was dripping wet and so fogged up. What a wet country we have here, but still its great to see a comet and to follow one, there is so much to learn in the following.
Comet C2006 M4 SWAN
Sky Watcher 200mm
25mm Meade eyepiece
19/10/06
Humidity 94%
19:00 UT
Bootes
Have to check out the stars for my Sky Watcher sketch, tried the 8mm TVP no good, tried the 10mm Kellner no good, 25 mm Meade was best tonight, and the binoculars were really good.
Dee
Your story about the dead red light battery and the million candle flashlight had me chuckling because I've had that happen to me before. The "bush filter" is something I hadn't heard of in the past, quite a creative solution! 
