[Utah-astronomy] ISON buzz heating up

I was just over on the Yahoo comet groups and the traffic there is starting to pick up.   ISON is currently tracking Mars in the morning sky and there is a window of good visibility between 5 and six am.   Photographs are starting to show up including 4 inch refractor shots with Mars in the same field of view   Visually its apparently and easy find in a 16 inch  dob.   More experienced observers are seeing it with 8 inch SCT's.  With the resulting flame war about if that is even possible.   Remarkably absent are the usual greybeards droning on about Kohoutek.  So maybe after 40 years the curse has been lifted at least on the Yahoo sites.    DT