McNaught's Comet has been across over the sky over the last couple of weeks. We missed it at it's brightest, but last week spent an evening sitting out next to the road watching it. We couldn't see it from our place - the mountains were in the road, so all we could see was the tail. So we drove down to the vineyards to watch, with Jack running around chasing things in the dark.
It was hard to see until the sun had set, but then got brighter as the evening got darker. There was a moon unfortunately, but no matter. Once it got dark, we were astonished at how long the tail was - millions of miles I suppose.
The comet just after the sun had set
Later on, with just the last glow of the sun over the horizon.
