Following last week's discussion here about visually catching sight of the comet that will run into Deep Impact, I posted to the Minor Planet Mailing List (a group of amateurs and professionals that discover and monitor comets and minor planets). Having read their posts I no longer feel bad about not seeing the comet. Here are a few of their comments: +++ I tried looking for it a week ago in a .7m dob and had the same impression. I hadn't checked the magnitude estimates beforehand and when I got to where it should have been, there was only a tiny barely visible speck. There was no moon that night, but even with the considerable haze what I saw looked no brighter than about a 12th or 13th magnitude galaxy. +++ Current lists of visual estimations show the comet in a range of 10-11 mag, with a coma diameter of 3-4' +++ The brightest pixels in the coma are only about 7% above the background. The coma size at the 7% above background was only about 15 arc seconds. So it is a difficult target at best. +++ So, apparently it's not too hard to take a CCD image of 9P/Temple but actually seeing it using just an eyeball and scope is tough. Of course, there's always that small chance of seeing it after the collision when it may brighten significantly. Patrick