[ALERT] Compet 220P is "Bright" in the morning skies.

View of the Northern Sky as seen from Adelaide at astronomical twilight(90 minutes before Sunrise) on August 11 showing the location of comet 220P McNaught (red cross). Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia 90 minutes before sunrise. The location of the asteroid Ceres and Mars are also shown as Ceres is within a binocular field of Mars. Click to embiggenBinocular view of Cetus as seen from Adelaide at astronomical twilight (90 minutes before Sunrise) on August 11 showing the location of comet 220P McNaught (red cross). The location of the Guide Stars μ Ceti and Menkat (λ Ceti) are shown for comparison with the black and while charts. Similar views will be seen elsewhere in Australia 90 minutes before sunrise. Click to embiggen Comet 220P McNaught should have been a barely visible telescopic object but it has undergone two large outbursts, soaring from magnitude 18 to now roughly magnitude 7, a nearly 7000 fold increase in brightness. Of course, while this is "bright" in…