That bastard comet still refuses to appear. Last night I set the alarm again, and in the cloudless night sky, around 6.45am I could see... nothing. Oh I could see stars, but no comet. Had a heart fluttering moment when I saw a trail just a couple of degrees above the horizon [my local horizon is about 3-4 degrees above true zero] with the naked eye, which wasn't dispelled by binoculars. Pointed the telescope at the thing and at that closeness of view one could see two trails that were just moving directly away from me. Bloody jet passenger aircraft..! Looked quite good though, lit from the pre-dawn Sun. Spent the emerging dawn watching bats flying up and down the garden and trying to get updates on where that bloody thing is. Truth is, it's so close to the Sun now that it can barely be seen from this latitude, and I'm certainly not putting an eye to the telescope as the Sun peeps over the horizon. Might take a picture of the very pretty sky though.