Regulus doesn't clear my neighbors trees until 5am. So I got the 18" reflector out to take a peak at ISON. My two go-to planetarium programs did not agree on its position, but I did finally locate it visually with the 27mm Panoptic. Very faint! Used averted vision.
I then took some pictures and a video of the comet. The comet moves probably less than an arcminute in the 19 minutes I was able to shoot before the sunrise was too bright. The video is condensed down to 19 seconds. I will attach a low-resolution copy.
Jeff, does this fit with what you saw? Only the brighter stars in this video would be visible.
Anyway, it's out there!
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