This thread has featured some doubles and carbons in Andromeda, and it now has another attraction - Comet 64/P Swift-Gehrels. I estimate it at mag 10.8 tonight, 2 degrees from Mu And.
Discovered in 1889 by Lewis Swift and not rediscovered till 84 years later by Tom Gehrels, although it has an orbital period of only 9 years. It can't really get any brighter than it is this year. Closest approach to Earth was on Saturday at 41 million miles and perihelion is next Saturday at 129 million miles. That's my 25th comet.
Finbarr.
  