ET> Anyone get a chance to look for comet Holmes?  

look for? i didn't have to look... it was just there ;)

 ET> Last night was the first really clear night here in Minnesota in 
 ET> the last several weeks so I went out with my binoculars around 
 ET> 10PM last night. It's very easy to find using a couple of the 
 ET> stars of Cassiopeia as a pointer.  

yup... i figured out using them when i was looking it up in my astronomy
program... some days later i saw remarks on space.com or some such about
doing the same thing...

 ET> When I went out, the stars pointed straight down so I just panned 
 ET> downward and there it was - a circular fuzzy patch with a slightly 
 ET> brighter center - very obvious once you've seen it and it's easy 
 ET> to pick it out as a fuzzy-looking star with the naked eye, even 
 ET> here in the light-polluted suburbs of Minneapolis.  

i'm in central north carolina and, yeah, the clouds have been an ugly bane
these last weeks... they have kept me from seeing the shuttle and iss since
the shuttle's launch :(

)\/(ark