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Originally Posted by pghnative
How tough is Holmes to find, if one isn't terribly familiar with the night sky? I can figure out N,E,W and S, and can recognize the obvious asterisms (Dippers, Cassiopia, Orion), but am fairly light polluted here in NJ.
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This is a real good chart
Look towards the Northeast around 8 or 9 p.m. If you can find Cassiopeia you are almost there. Look down and a little to right (East) of Cassiopeia. To me Perseus looks like a ragged line of stars going up and down. Towards the bottom you'll see a triangle of stars. The left member of that triangle is not really a star, but is the comet. It just looks like a faint star naked eye, but look at it with a pair of binoculars and you can see it is really a fuzzy blob.